CVE-2024-50179: 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: ceph: remove the incorrect Fw reference check when dirtying pages When doing the direct-io reads it will also try to mark pages dirty, but for the read path it won't hold the Fw caps and there is case will it get the Fw reference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.2, before 4.19.323 (fixed in 4.19.323); from 4.20, before 5.4.285 (fixed in 5.4.285); from 5.5, before 5.10.227 (fixed in 5.10.227); from 5.11, before 5.15.168 (fixed in 5.15.168); from 5.16, before 6.1.113 (fixed in 6.1.113); from 6.2, before 6.6.55 (fixed in 6.6.55); …

Published 2024-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.