CVE-2024-50247: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Check if more than chunk-size bytes are written A incorrectly formatted chunk may decompress into more than LZNT_CHUNK_SIZE bytes and a index out of bounds will occur in s_max_off.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.15.171 (fixed in 5.15.171); from 5.16, before 6.1.116 (fixed in 6.1.116); from 6.2, before 6.6.60 (fixed in 6.6.60); from 6.7, before 6.11.7 (fixed in 6.11.7); version 6.12 only

Published 2024-11-09. Last modified 2026-08-04.