CVE record · CVE-2024-50229

nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks

CVSS 5.5 MediumEPSS 0.0021 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 9 Nov 2024, 10:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before cc38c596e648575ce58bfc31623a6506eda4b94a git
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before a1686db1e59f8fc016c4c9361e2119dd206f479a git
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before c72e0df0b56c1166736dc8eb62070ebb12591447 git
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before 69548bb663fcb63f9ee0301be808a36b9d78dac3 git
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before 58c7f44c7b9e5ac7e3b1e5da2572ed7767a12f38 git
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before 1246d86e7bbde265761932c6e2dce28c69cdcb91 git
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before 9aa5d43ac4cace8fb9bd964ff6c23f599dc3cd24 git
  • affected 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 to before b3a033e3ecd3471248d474ef263aadc0059e516a git
  • affected 076e4ab3279eb3ddb206de44d04df7aeb2428e09 git
  • affected 4.4.116 to before 4.5 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.5
  • unaffected before 4.5 semver
  • unaffected 4.19.323 to 4.19.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.4.285 to 5.4.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.10.229 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.171 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.116 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.60 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.11.7 to 6.11.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2024-50229
CNA
Linux
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-667
Published
9 Nov 2024
Updated
23 May 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 9 Nov 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.