CVE-2024-49965: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks Patch series "Misc fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks", v5. This series contains 2 fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks(). The first patch fix the issue reported by syzbot, which detects bad unlock balance in ocfs2_read_blocks(). The second patch fixes an issue reported by Heming Zhao when reviewing above fix. This patch (of 2): There was a lock release before exiting, so remove the unreasonable unlock.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.4.204, before 4.9 (fixed in 4.9); from 4.9.204, before 4.14 (fixed in 4.14); from 4.14.157, before 4.19 (fixed in 4.19); from 4.19.87, before 4.20 (fixed in 4.20); from 4.20, before 5.10.227 (fixed in 5.10.227); from 5.11, before 5.15.168 (fixed in 5.15.168); …

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-08-04.