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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49959" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:02:12.355Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:42:51.196Z" 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-2024-49959" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49959.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49959" title: "jbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error\n\nIn __jbd2_log_wait_for_space(), we might call jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()\nto recover some journal space. But if an error occurs while executing\njbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() (e.g., an EIO), we don't stop waiting for free\nspace right away, we try other branches, and if j_committing_transaction\nis NULL (i.e., the tid is 0), we will get the following complain:\n\n============================================\nJBD2: I/O error when updating journal superblock for sdd-8.\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: needed 256 blocks and only had 217 space available\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: no way to get more journal space in sdd-8\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 139804 at fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c:109 __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 2 PID: 139804 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #1\nRIP: 0010:__jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n add_transaction_credits+0x5d1/0x5e0\n start_this_handle+0x1ef/0x6a0\n jbd2__journal_start+0x18b/0x340\n ext4_dirty_inode+0x5d/0xb0\n __mark_inode_dirty+0xe4/0x5d0\n generic_update_time+0x60/0x70\n[...]\n============================================\n\nSo only if jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns 1, i.e., there is nothing to\nclean up at the moment, continue to try to reclaim free space in other ways.\n\nNote that this fix relies on commit 6f6a6fda2945 (\"jbd2: fix ocfs2 corrupt\nwhen updating journal superblock fails\") to make jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail\nreturn the correct error code." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"801a35dfef6996f3d5eaa96a59caf00440d9165e"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5dc65370a746750dbb2f03eabcf86b18db65f32"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"481e8f18a290e39e04ddb7feb2bb2a2cc3b213ed"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec7f8337c98ad281020ad1f11ba492462d80737a"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70bae48377a2c4296fd3caf4caf8f11079111019"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c62dc0d82c62f0dc8fcdc4843208e522acccaf5"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ced0fe6c0eff032733ea8b38778b34707270138"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c6bf043b210eac67d35a114e345c4e5585672913"},{"version":"8c3f25d8950c3e9fe6c9849f88679b3f2a071550","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f5cacdc6f2bb2a9bf214469dd7112b43dd2dd68a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.28","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.28"},{"version":"4.19.323","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.285","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"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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