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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-42102" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-30T07:45:58.423Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:52:04.939Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42102" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42102.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42102" title: "Revert \"mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again\"" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRevert \"mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again\"\n\nPatch series \"mm: Avoid possible overflows in dirty throttling\".\n\nDirty throttling logic assumes dirty limits in page units fit into\n32-bits. This patch series makes sure this is true (see patch 2/2 for\nmore details).\n\n\nThis patch (of 2):\n\nThis reverts commit 9319b647902cbd5cc884ac08a8a6d54ce111fc78.\n\nThe commit is broken in several ways. Firstly, the removed (u64) cast\nfrom the multiplication will introduce a multiplication overflow on 32-bit\narchs if wb_thresh * bg_thresh \u003e= 1\u003c\u003c32 (which is actually common - the\ndefault settings with 4GB of RAM will trigger this). Secondly, the\ndiv64_u64() is unnecessarily expensive on 32-bit archs. We have\ndiv64_ul() in case we want to be safe & cheap. Thirdly, if dirty\nthresholds are larger than 1\u003c\u003c32 pages, then dirty balancing is going to\nblow up in many other spectacular ways anyway so trying to fix one\npossible overflow is just moot." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c593d26fb5d577ef31b6e49a31e08ae3ebc1bc1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"253f9ea7e8e53a5176bd80ceb174907b10724c1a"},{"version":"1f12e4b3284d6c863f272eb2de0d4248ed211cf4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23a28f5f3f6ca1e4184bd0e9631cd0944cf1c807"},{"version":"81e7d2530d458548b90a5c5e76b77ad5e5d1c0df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"145faa3d03688cbb7bbaaecbd84c01539852942c"},{"version":"5099871b370335809c0fd1abad74d9c7c205d43f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2820005edae13b140f2d54267d1bd6bb23915f59"},{"version":"16b1025eaa8fc223ab4273ece20d1c3a4211a95d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbbe17a324437c0ff99881a3ee453da45b228a00"},{"version":"ec18ec230301583395576915d274b407743d8f6c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6620df12cb6bdcad671d269debbb23573502f9d"},{"version":"9319b647902cbd5cc884ac08a8a6d54ce111fc78","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"000099d71648504fb9c7a4616f92c2b70c3e44ec"},{"version":"9319b647902cbd5cc884ac08a8a6d54ce111fc78","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30139c702048f1097342a31302cbd3d478f50c63"},{"version":"65977bed167a92e87085e757fffa5798f7314c9f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.307","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19.318"},{"version":"5.4.269","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.280"},{"version":"5.10.210","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.222"},{"version":"5.15.149","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.163"},{"version":"6.1.79","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.98"},{"version":"6.6.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.39"},{"version":"6.7.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"4.19.318","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.280","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.98","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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