CVE-2024-50210: 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: posix-clock: posix-clock: Fix unbalanced locking in pc_clock_settime() If get_clock_desc() succeeds, it calls fget() for the clockid's fd, and get the clk->rwsem read lock, so the error path should release the lock to make the lock balance and fput the clockid's fd to make the refcount balance and release the fd related resource. However the below commit left the error path locked behind resulting in unbalanced locking. Check timespec64_valid_strict() before get_clock_desc() to fix it, because the "ts" is not changed after that. [pabeni@redhat.com: fixed commit message typo]

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10.228, before 5.11 (fixed in 5.11); version 5.15.169 only; version 6.1.114 only; version 6.6.58 only; version 6.11.5 only; version 6.12 only

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