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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50278" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-19T01:30:19.352Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:49:02.005Z" 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-2024-50278" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50278.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50278" title: "dm cache: fix potential out-of-bounds access on the first resume" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm cache: fix potential out-of-bounds access on the first resume\n\nOut-of-bounds access occurs if the fast device is expanded unexpectedly\nbefore the first-time resume of the cache table. This happens because\nexpanding the fast device requires reloading the cache table for\ncache_create to allocate new in-core data structures that fit the new\nsize, and the check in cache_preresume is not performed during the\nfirst resume, leading to the issue.\n\nReproduce steps:\n\n1. prepare component devices:\n\ndmsetup create cmeta --table \"0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0\"\ndmsetup create cdata --table \"0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144\"\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct\n\n2. load a cache table of 512 cache blocks, and deliberately expand the\n fast device before resuming the cache, making the in-core data\n structures inadequate.\n\ndmsetup create cache --notable\ndmsetup reload cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\ndmsetup reload cdata --table \"0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup resume cdata\ndmsetup resume cache\n\n3. suspend the cache to write out the in-core dirty bitset and hint\n array, leading to out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset at offset\n 0x40:\n\ndmsetup suspend cache\n\nKASAN reports:\n\n BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in is_dirty_callback+0x2b/0x80\n Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000085040 by task dmsetup/90\n\n (...snip...)\n The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at\n [ffffc90000085000, ffffc90000087000) created by:\n cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0\n\n (...snip...)\n Memory state around the buggy address:\n ffffc90000084f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n ffffc90000084f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n \u003effffc90000085000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n ^\n ffffc90000085080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n ffffc90000085100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n\nFix by checking the size change on the first resume." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e492f71854ce03474d49e87fd98b8df1f7cd1d2d"},{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2222b0929d00e2d13732b799b63be391b5de4492"},{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"483b7261b35a9d369082ab298a6670912243f0be"},{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fdef3b94dfebd57e3077a578b6e309a2bb6fa688"},{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c52ec00cb2f9bebfada22edcc0db385b910a1cdb"},{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"036dd6e3d2638103e0092864577ea1d091466b86"},{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13ed3624c6ef283acefa4cc42cc8ae54fd4391a4"},{"version":"f494a9c6b1b6dd9a9f21bbb75d9210d478eeb498","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0ade5d98979585d4f5a93e4514c2e9a65afa08d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"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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