What is CVE-2024-50081?

CVE-2024-50081 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-10-29.

How severe is CVE-2024-50081?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-50081 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2024-50081

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: setup queue ->tag_set before initializing hctx Commit 7b815817aa58 ("blk-mq: add helper for checking if one CPU is mapped to specified hctx") needs to check queue mapping via tag set in hctx's cpuhp handler. However, q->tag_set may not be setup yet when the cpuhp handler is enabled, then kernel oops is triggered. Fix the issue by setup queue tag_set before initializing hctx.

EPSS: 0.002 (11.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions ff2d6ef107b1b1ec6b469073b4dda0dc744e343c, dbd0829d2458d7292b82bfc9d02cce23935b198f, 7b815817aa58d2e2101feb2fcf64c60cae0b2695
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.12

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-50081?: CVE-2024-50081 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-10-29.
How severe is CVE-2024-50081?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-50081 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.