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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50265" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-19T01:30:00.861Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:48:46.700Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" 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-2024-50265" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50265.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50265" title: "ocfs2: remove entry once instead of null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: remove entry once instead of null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove()\n\nSyzkaller is able to provoke null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove():\n\n[ 57.319872] (a.out,1161,7):ocfs2_xa_remove:2028 ERROR: status = -12\n[ 57.320420] (a.out,1161,7):ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate:1999 ERROR: Partial truncate while removing xattr overlay.upper. Leaking 1 clusters and removing the entry\n[ 57.321727] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000004\n[...]\n[ 57.325727] RIP: 0010:ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0\n[...]\n[ 57.331328] Call Trace:\n[ 57.331477] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[...]\n[ 57.333511] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x3e5/0x740\n[ 57.333778] ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x170\n[ 57.334016] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x2b/0x30\n[ 57.334263] ? __pfx_ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x10/0x10\n[ 57.334596] ? ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0\n[ 57.334913] ocfs2_xa_remove_entry+0x23/0xc0\n[ 57.335164] ocfs2_xa_set+0x704/0xcf0\n[ 57.335381] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x40\n[ 57.335620] ? ocfs2_inode_cache_unlock+0x16/0x20\n[ 57.335915] ? trace_preempt_on+0x1e/0x70\n[ 57.336153] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500\n[ 57.336410] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80\n[ 57.336656] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x20/0x40\n[ 57.336906] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500\n[ 57.337162] ocfs2_xattr_block_set+0xa6/0x1e0\n[ 57.337424] __ocfs2_xattr_set_handle+0x1fd/0x5d0\n[ 57.337706] ? ocfs2_start_trans+0x13d/0x290\n[ 57.337971] ocfs2_xattr_set+0xb13/0xfb0\n[ 57.338207] ? dput+0x46/0x1c0\n[ 57.338393] ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30\n[ 57.338665] ? ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30\n[ 57.338948] __vfs_removexattr+0x92/0xc0\n[ 57.339182] __vfs_removexattr_locked+0xd5/0x190\n[ 57.339456] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80\n[ 57.339705] vfs_removexattr+0x5f/0x100\n[...]\n\nReproducer uses faultinject facility to fail ocfs2_xa_remove() -\u003e\nocfs2_xa_value_truncate() with -ENOMEM.\n\nIn this case the comment mentions that we can return 0 if\nocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate() is going to wipe the entry\nanyway. But the following 'rc' check is wrong and execution flow do\n'ocfs2_xa_remove_entry(loc);' twice:\n* 1st: in ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate();\n* 2nd: returning back to ocfs2_xa_remove() instead of going to 'out'.\n\nFix this by skipping the 2nd removal of the same entry and making\nsyzkaller repro happy." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38cbf13b2e7a31362babe411f7c2c3c52cd2734b"},{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"168a9b8303fcb0317db4c06b23ce1c0ce2af4e10"},{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a7e6dcf90fe7721d0863067b6ca9a9442134692"},{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcc8fe8c83145041cb6c80cac21f6173a3ff0204"},{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86dd0e8d42828923c68ad506933336bcd6f2317d"},{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd73c942eed76a014c7a5597e6926435274d2c4c"},{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b5369528ee63c88371816178a05b5e664c87386"},{"version":"399ff3a748cf4c8c853e96dd477153202636527b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b63c0e01fba40e3992bc627272ec7b618ccaef7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.34","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.34"},{"version":"4.19.324","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.286","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.230","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.172","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.61","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.8","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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