# block: Prevent potential deadlocks in zone write plug error recovery

CVE record · `CVE-2024-55642`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-55642`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.5 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-667](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/667.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-667](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-667.md)
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 11 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 11 Jan 2025, 12:29 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

- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `dd291d77cc90eb6a86e9860ba8e6e38eebd57d12 to before 7fa80134cf266325fa61139320091001c9b3c477` (git)
  - affected: `dd291d77cc90eb6a86e9860ba8e6e38eebd57d12 to before fe0418eb9bd69a19a948b297c8de815e05f3cde1` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `6.10`
  - unaffected: `before 6.10` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12.6 to 6.12.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.13 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.5 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from ADP (CISA-ADP)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0019, the 8th percentile, on 5 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 11 Jan 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-55642](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-55642)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-55642](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55642)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fa80134cf266325fa61139320091001c9b3c477>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe0418eb9bd69a19a948b297c8de815e05f3cde1>

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.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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