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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50280"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-11-19T01:30:21.999Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:54:56.616Z"
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-2024-50280"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50280.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50280"
title: "dm cache: fix flushing uninitialized delayed_work on cache_ctr error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm cache: fix flushing uninitialized delayed_work on cache_ctr error\n\nAn unexpected WARN_ON from flush_work() may occur when cache creation\nfails, caused by destroying the uninitialized delayed_work waker in the\nerror path of cache_create(). For example, the warning appears on the\nsuperblock checksum error.\n\nReproduce steps:\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/urandom of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\n\nKernel logs:\n\n(snip)\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 84 at kernel/workqueue.c:4178 __flush_work+0x5d4/0x890\n\nFix by pulling out the cancel_delayed_work_sync() from the constructor's\nerror path. This patch doesn't affect the use-after-free fix for\nconcurrent dm_resume and dm_destroy (commit 6a459d8edbdb (\"dm cache: Fix\nUAF in destroy()\")) as cache_dtr is not changed."
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