CVE-2024-50060: 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: io_uring: check if we need to reschedule during overflow flush In terms of normal application usage, this list will always be empty. And if an application does overflow a bit, it'll have a few entries. However, nothing obviously prevents syzbot from running a test case that generates a ton of overflow entries, and then flushing them can take quite a while. Check for needing to reschedule while flushing, and drop our locks and do so if necessary. There's no state to maintain here as overflows always prune from head-of-list, hence it's fine to drop and reacquire the locks at the end of the loop.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.1, before 6.1.113 (fixed in 6.1.113); from 6.6, before 6.6.57 (fixed in 6.6.57); from 6.11, before 6.11.4 (fixed in 6.11.4)

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.