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CVE-2024-49932: btrfs: don't readahead the relocation inode on RST

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 04915240e2c3a018e4c7f23418478d27226c8957, f7a1218a983ab98aba140dc20b25f60b39ee4033.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 04915240e2c3a018e4c7f23418478d27226c8957, f7a1218a983ab98aba140dc20b25f60b39ee4033 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: don't readahead the relocation inode on RST On relocation we're doing readahead on the relocation inode, but if the filesystem is backed by a RAID stripe tree we can get ENOENT (e.g. due to preallocated extents not being mapped in the RST) from the lookup. But readahead doesn't handle the error and submits invalid reads to the device, causing an assertion in the scatter-gather list code: BTRFS info (device nvme1n1): balance: start -d -m -s BTRFS info (device nvme1n1): relocating block group 6480920576 flags data|raid0 BTRFS error (device nvme1n1): cannot find raid-stripe for logical [6481928192, 6481969152] devid 2, profile raid0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:115! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 1012 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7+ #567 RIP: 0010:__blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001a43820 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffea00045d4802 RDX: 0000000117520000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881027d1000 RBP: 0000000000003000 R08: ffffea00045d4902 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffff8881003d10b8 R13: ffffc90001a438f0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000003000 FS: 00007fcc048a6900(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000002cd11000 CR3: 00000001109ea001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body.cold+0x14/0x25 ? die+0x2e/0x50 ? do_trap+0xca/0x110 ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80 ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 ? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x70 ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 nvme_prep_rq.part.0+0x9d/0x770 nvme_queue_rq+0x7d/0x1e0 __blk_mq_issue_directly+0x2a/0x90 ? blk_mq_get_budget_and_tag+0x61/0x90 blk_mq_try_issue_list_directly+0x56/0xf0 blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x52b/0x5d0 __blk_flush_plug+0xc6/0x110 blk_finish_plug+0x28/0x40 read_pages+0x160/0x1c0 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x109/0x180 relocate_file_extent_cluster+0x611/0x6a0 ? btrfs_search_slot+0xba4/0xd20 ? balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags+0x26/0xb00 relocate_data_extent.constprop.0+0x134/0x160 relocate_block_group+0x3f2/0x500 btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x250/0x430 btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3f/0x130 btrfs_balance+0x71b/0xef0 ? kmalloc_trace_noprof+0x13b/0x280 btrfs_ioctl+0x2c2e/0x3030 ? kvfree_call_rcu+0x1e6/0x340 ? list_lru_add_obj+0x66/0x80 ? mntput_no_expire+0x3a/0x220 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x54/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fcc04514f9b Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fcc04514f71. RSP: 002b:00007ffeba923370 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fcc04514f9b RDX: 00007ffeba923460 RSI: 00000000c4009420 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000013 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 00007fcc043fbba8 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffeba924fc5 R13: 00007ffeba923460 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 00000000004d4bb0 </TASK> Modules linked in: ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:__blk_rq_map_sg+0x339/0x4a0 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001a43820 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffea00045d4802 RDX: 0000000117520000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881027d1000 RBP: 0000000000003000 R08: ffffea00045d4902 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffff8881003d10b8 R13: ffffc90001a438f0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000003000 FS: 00007fcc048a6900(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fcc04514f71 CR3: 00000001109ea001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 Kernel p ---truncated---

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 10th percentile

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Action score

22

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
5.5
CNA · Linux
7.0
1.5 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Affected systems

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • linux linux kernelbefore 6.11.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • 6.7affected
    • 10e27980f2ff66ba0c6da55f33b4814d5bc86573 and later · before f7a1218a983ab98aba140dc20b25f60b39ee4033affected · git
    • 10e27980f2ff66ba0c6da55f33b4814d5bc86573 and later · before 04915240e2c3a018e4c7f23418478d27226c8957affected · git
    • before 6.7not affected · semver
    • 6.11.3 and later · up to and including 6.11.*not affected · semver
    • 6.12 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.11.4-16.11.4-1

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

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    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-49931Oct 21, 2024 · wifi: ath12k: fix array out-of-bound access in SoC stats
    31Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-49933Oct 21, 2024 · blk_iocost: fix more out of bound shifts
    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux04915240e2c3a018e4c7f23418478d27226c8957Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxf7a1218a983ab98aba140dc20b25f60b39ee4033Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.11.4-1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2023-2156531 days apartA flaw was found in the networking subsystem of the Linux kernel within the handling of the RPL protocol.
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  • CVE-2025-39803329 days apartscsi: ufs: core: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() call from ufshcd_uic_cmd_compl()
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  • CVE-2026-31398529 days apartmm/rmap: fix incorrect pte restoration for lazyfree folios
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  • CVE-2024-4675333 days apartbtrfs: handle errors from btrfs_dec_ref() properly
    22Monitor
  • CVE-2024-5670568 days apartmedia: atomisp: Add check for rgby_data memory allocation failure
    22Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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