CVE-2024-50065: 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: ntfs3: Change to non-blocking allocation in ntfs_d_hash d_hash is done while under "rcu-walk" and should not sleep. __get_name() allocates using GFP_KERNEL, having the possibility to sleep when under memory pressure. Change the allocation to GFP_NOWAIT.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.6.44, before 6.6.57 (fixed in 6.6.57); from 6.11, before 6.11.4 (fixed in 6.11.4); version 6.12 only

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