CVE record · CVE-2024-56596

jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds in jfs_readdir

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0026 · 17th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 27 Dec 2024, 14:51 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	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b62f41aeec9d250144c53875b507c1d45ae8c8fc git affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 97e693593162eef6851d232f0c8148169ed46a5c git affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 9efe72eefd4c4a7ce63b3e4d667d766d2b360cb4 git affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ff9fc48fab0e1ea0d423c23c99b91bba178f0b05 git affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before e7d376f94f72b020f84e77278b150ec1cc27502c git affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 8ff7579554571d92e3deab168f5a7d7b146ed368 git affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 839f102efb168f02dfdd46717b7c6dddb26b015e git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 2.6.12 unaffected before 2.6.12 semver unaffected 5.4.287 to 5.4., inclusive semver unaffected 5.10.231 to 5.10., inclusive semver unaffected 5.15.174 to 5.15., inclusive semver unaffected 6.1.120 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.66 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.5 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.13 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-56596
CNA: Linux
Weakness (CWE): CWE-129
Tags: Linux kernel
CWE-129
Published: 27 Dec 2024
Updated: 5 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)Used for this record
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0026, the 17th 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 27 Dec 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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