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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49881" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:19.478Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:53:27.992Z" 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-2024-49881" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49881.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49881" title: "ext4: update orig_path in ext4_find_extent()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: update orig_path in ext4_find_extent()\n\nIn ext4_find_extent(), if the path is not big enough, we free it and set\n*orig_path to NULL. But after reallocating and successfully initializing\nthe path, we don't update *orig_path, in which case the caller gets a\nvalid path but a NULL ppath, and this may cause a NULL pointer dereference\nor a path memory leak. For example:\n\next4_split_extent\n path = *ppath = 2000\n ext4_find_extent\n if (depth \u003e path[0].p_maxdepth)\n kfree(path = 2000);\n *orig_path = path = NULL;\n path = kcalloc() = 3000\n ext4_split_extent_at(*ppath = NULL)\n path = *ppath;\n ex = path[depth].p_ext;\n // NULL pointer dereference!\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010\nCPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 576 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.11.0-rc2-dirty #847\nRIP: 0010:ext4_split_extent_at+0x6d/0x560\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ext4_split_extent.isra.0+0xcb/0x1b0\n ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized+0x168/0x6c0\n ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents+0x325/0x4d0\n ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x520/0xdb0\n ext4_map_blocks+0x2b0/0x690\n ext4_iomap_begin+0x20e/0x2c0\n[...]\n==================================================================\n\nTherefore, *orig_path is updated when the extent lookup succeeds, so that\nthe caller can safely use path or *ppath." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec0c0beb9b777cdd1edd7df9b36e0f3e67e2bdff"},{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6766937d0327000ac1b87c97bbecdd28b0dd6599"},{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9fcb1717d75061d3653ed69365c8d45331815cd"},{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6801ed1298204d16a38571091e31178bfdc3c679"},{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f55ecc58d07a6c1f6d6d5b5af125c25f8da0bda2"},{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b63481b3a388ee2df9e295f97273226140422a42"},{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11b230100d6801c014fab2afabc8bdea304c1b96"},{"version":"10809df84a4d868db61af621bae3658494165279","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b4b2dcace35f618fe361a87bae6f0d13af31bc1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"version":"4.19.323","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.10.227","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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