Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.12,6.6.59)[6.7,6.11.6)
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- published10 Oct 2026
- disclosed8 Nov 2024
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 8 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-50211 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6.59, 6.11.6 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) in the inode_bmap process due to improper handling of errors returned by udf_next_aext. An attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution, disclose sensitive kernel memory, and cause system crashes or hangs by mounting a crafted UDF filesystem image and issuing an ftruncate syscall against a file on it. This allows out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel slab memory, leading to heap corruption and potential control-flow hijacking.
Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst