How severe is CVE-2024-49875?

CVE-2024-49875 has a CVSS 3.x base score of 5.5, rated medium severity. It is exploitable over local access with low attack complexity, requires low privileges and no user interaction. Impact on confidentiality is none, integrity high, and availability none.

Is CVE-2024-49875 being actively exploited?

It is not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog. Its EPSS exploit-prediction score is 0% (13th percentile), an estimate of the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

What products are affected by CVE-2024-49875?

CVE-2024-49875 affects Linux Linux Kernel. See the affected-products list for the exact vulnerable versions.

How do I fix CVE-2024-49875?

Review the linked vendor and NVD advisories for patched versions and mitigations, then upgrade or apply the recommended workaround.

Does CVE-2024-49875 have an EU (EUVD) identifier?

Yes. CVE-2024-49875 is tracked in the ENISA EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD) as EUVD-2024-43719.

When was CVE-2024-49875 published?

CVE-2024-49875 was published on 2024-10-21 and last updated on 2026-06-17.

CVE-2024-49875

CVE-2024-49875 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel with a CVSS 3.x base score of 5.5. It is not currently listed as actively exploited by CISA, and its EPSS exploit-prediction score is low. The underlying weakness is classified as CWE-354.

Key facts

Severity: Medium (CVSS 3.x base score 5.5)
EPSS exploit prediction: 0% (13th percentile)
Actively exploited: Not listed in CISA KEV
EU (EUVD) id: EUVD-2024-43719
Weakness: CWE-354
Affected product: Linux Linux Kernel
Published: 2024-10-21
Last modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: map the EBADMSG to nfserr_io to avoid warning Ext4 will throw -EBADMSG through ext4_readdir when a checksum error occurs, resulting in the following WARNING. Fix it by mapping EBADMSG to nfserr_io. nfsd_buffered_readdir iterate_dir // -EBADMSG -74 ext4_readdir // .iterate_shared ext4_dx_readdir ext4_htree_fill_tree htree_dirblock_to_tree ext4_read_dirblock __ext4_read_dirblock ext4_dirblock_csum_verify warn_no_space_for_csum __warn_no_space_for_csum return ERR_PTR(-EFSBADCRC) // -EBADMSG -74 nfserrno // WARNING [ 161.115610] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 161.116465] nfsd: non-standard errno: -74 [ 161.117315] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 780 at fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c:878 nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.118596] Modules linked in: [ 161.119243] CPU: 1 PID: 780 Comm: nfsd Not tainted 5.10.0-00014-g79679361fd5d #138 [ 161.120684] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qe mu.org 04/01/2014 [ 161.123601] RIP: 0010:nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.124676] Code: 0f 87 da 30 dd 00 83 e3 01 b8 00 00 00 05 75 d7 44 89 ee 48 c7 c7 c0 57 24 98 89 44 24 04 c6 05 ce 2b 61 03 01 e8 99 20 d8 00 <0f> 0b 8b 44 24 04 eb b5 4c 89 e6 48 c7 c7 a0 6d a4 99 e8 cc 15 33 [ 161.127797] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e2f9c0 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 161.128794] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 161.130089] RDX: 1ffff1103ee16f6d RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: fffff520001c5f2a [ 161.131379] RBP: 0000000000000022 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8881f70c1827 [ 161.132664] R10: ffffed103ee18304 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000021 [ 161.133949] R13: 00000000ffffffb6 R14: ffff8881317c0000 R15: ffffc90000e2fbd8 [ 161.135244] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 161.136695] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 161.137761] CR2: 00007fcaad70b348 CR3: 0000000144256006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [ 161.139041] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 161.140291] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 161.141519] PKRU: 55555554 [ 161.142076] Call Trace: [ 161.142575] ? __warn+0x9b/0x140 [ 161.143229] ? nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.143872] ? report_bug+0x125/0x150 [ 161.144595] ? handle_bug+0x41/0x90 [ 161.145284] ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70 [ 161.146009] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x12/0x20 [ 161.146816] ? nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.147487] nfsd_buffered_readdir+0x28b/0x2b0 [ 161.148333] ? nfsd4_encode_dirent_fattr+0x380/0x380 [ 161.149258] ? nfsd_buffered_filldir+0xf0/0xf0 [ 161.150093] ? wait_for_concurrent_writes+0x170/0x170 [ 161.151004] ? generic_file_llseek_size+0x48/0x160 [ 161.151895] nfsd_readdir+0x132/0x190 [ 161.152606] ? nfsd4_encode_dirent_fattr+0x380/0x380 [ 161.153516] ? nfsd_unlink+0x380/0x380 [ 161.154256] ? override_creds+0x45/0x60 [ 161.155006] nfsd4_encode_readdir+0x21a/0x3d0 [ 161.155850] ? nfsd4_encode_readlink+0x210/0x210 [ 161.156731] ? write_bytes_to_xdr_buf+0x97/0xe0 [ 161.157598] ? __write_bytes_to_xdr_buf+0xd0/0xd0 [ 161.158494] ? lock_downgrade+0x90/0x90 [ 161.159232] ? nfs4svc_decode_voidarg+0x10/0x10 [ 161.160092] nfsd4_encode_operation+0x15a/0x440 [ 161.160959] nfsd4_proc_compound+0x718/0xe90 [ 161.161818] nfsd_dispatch+0x18e/0x2c0 [ 161.162586] svc_process_common+0x786/0xc50 [ 161.163403] ? nfsd_svc+0x380/0x380 [ 161.164137] ? svc_printk+0x160/0x160 [ 161.164846] ? svc_xprt_do_enqueue.part.0+0x365/0x380 [ 161.165808] ? nfsd_svc+0x380/0x380 [ 161.166523] ? rcu_is_watching+0x23/0x40 [ 161.167309] svc_process+0x1a5/0x200 [ 161.168019] nfsd+0x1f5/0x380 [ 161.168663] ? nfsd_shutdown_threads+0x260/0x260 [ 161.169554] kthread+0x1c4/0x210 [ 161.170224] ? kthread_insert_work_sanity_check+0x80/0x80 [ 161.171246] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-49875?: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: map the EBADMSG to nfserr_io to avoid warning Ext4 will throw -EBADMSG through ext4_readdir when a checksum error occurs, resulting in the following WARNING. Fix it by mapping EBADMSG to nfserr_io. nfsd_buffered_readdir iterate_dir // -EBADMSG -74 ext4_readdir // .iterate_shared ext4_dx_readdir ext4_htree_fill_tree htree_dirblock_to_tree ext4_read_dirblock __ext4_read_dirblock ext4_dirblock_csum_verify warn_no_space_for_csum __warn_no_space_for_csum return ERR_PTR(-EFSBADCRC) // -EBADMSG -74 nfserrno // WARNING [ 161.115610] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 161.116465] nfsd: non-standard errno: -74 [ 161.117315] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 780 at fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c:878 nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.118596] Modules linked in: [ 161.119243] CPU: 1 PID: 780 Comm: nfsd Not tainted 5.10.0-00014-g79679361fd5d #138 [ 161.120684] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qe mu.org 04/01/2014 [ 161.123601] RIP: 0010:nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.124676] Code: 0f 87 da 30 dd 00 83 e3 01 b8 00 00 00 05 75 d7 44 89 ee 48 c7 c7 c0 57 24 98 89 44 24 04 c6 05 ce 2b 61 03 01 e8 99 20 d8 00 <0f> 0b 8b 44 24 04 eb b5 4c 89 e6 48 c7 c7 a0 6d a4 99 e8 cc 15 33 [ 161.127797] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e2f9c0 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 161.128794] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 161.130089] RDX: 1ffff1103ee16f6d RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: fffff520001c5f2a [ 161.131379] RBP: 0000000000000022 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8881f70c1827 [ 161.132664] R10: ffffed103ee18304 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000021 [ 161.133949] R13: 00000000ffffffb6 R14: ffff8881317c0000 R15: ffffc90000e2fbd8 [ 161.135244] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 161.136695] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 161.137761] CR2: 00007fcaad70b348 CR3: 0000000144256006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [ 161.139041] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 161.140291] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 161.141519] PKRU: 55555554 [ 161.142076] Call Trace: [ 161.142575] ? __warn+0x9b/0x140 [ 161.143229] ? nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.143872] ? report_bug+0x125/0x150 [ 161.144595] ? handle_bug+0x41/0x90 [ 161.145284] ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70 [ 161.146009] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x12/0x20 [ 161.146816] ? nfserrno+0x9d/0xd0 [ 161.147487] nfsd_buffered_readdir+0x28b/0x2b0 [ 161.148333] ? nfsd4_encode_dirent_fattr+0x380/0x380 [ 161.149258] ? nfsd_buffered_filldir+0xf0/0xf0 [ 161.150093] ? wait_for_concurrent_writes+0x170/0x170 [ 161.151004] ? generic_file_llseek_size+0x48/0x160 [ 161.151895] nfsd_readdir+0x132/0x190 [ 161.152606] ? nfsd4_encode_dirent_fattr+0x380/0x380 [ 161.153516] ? nfsd_unlink+0x380/0x380 [ 161.154256] ? override_creds+0x45/0x60 [ 161.155006] nfsd4_encode_readdir+0x21a/0x3d0 [ 161.155850] ? nfsd4_encode_readlink+0x210/0x210 [ 161.156731] ? write_bytes_to_xdr_buf+0x97/0xe0 [ 161.157598] ? __write_bytes_to_xdr_buf+0xd0/0xd0 [ 161.158494] ? lock_downgrade+0x90/0x90 [ 161.159232] ? nfs4svc_decode_voidarg+0x10/0x10 [ 161.160092] nfsd4_encode_operation+0x15a/0x440 [ 161.160959] nfsd4_proc_compound+0x718/0xe90 [ 161.161818] nfsd_dispatch+0x18e/0x2c0 [ 161.162586] svc_process_common+0x786/0xc50 [ 161.163403] ? nfsd_svc+0x380/0x380 [ 161.164137] ? svc_printk+0x160/0x160 [ 161.164846] ? svc_xprt_do_enqueue.part.0+0x365/0x380 [ 161.165808] ? nfsd_svc+0x380/0x380 [ 161.166523] ? rcu_is_watching+0x23/0x40 [ 161.167309] svc_process+0x1a5/0x200 [ 161.168019] nfsd+0x1f5/0x380 [ 161.168663] ? nfsd_shutdown_threads+0x260/0x260 [ 161.169554] kthread+0x1c4/0x210 [ 161.170224] ? kthread_insert_work_sanity_check+0x80/0x80 [ 161.171246] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
How severe is CVE-2024-49875?: CVE-2024-49875 has a CVSS 3.x base score of 5.5, rated medium severity. It is exploitable over local access with low attack complexity, requires low privileges and no user interaction. Impact on confidentiality is none, integrity high, and availability none.
Is CVE-2024-49875 being actively exploited?: It is not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog. Its EPSS exploit-prediction score is 0% (13th percentile), an estimate of the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
What products are affected by CVE-2024-49875?: CVE-2024-49875 affects Linux Linux Kernel. See the affected-products list for the exact vulnerable versions.
How do I fix CVE-2024-49875?: Review the linked vendor and NVD advisories for patched versions and mitigations, then upgrade or apply the recommended workaround.
Does CVE-2024-49875 have an EU (EUVD) identifier?: Yes. CVE-2024-49875 is tracked in the ENISA EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD) as EUVD-2024-43719.
When was CVE-2024-49875 published?: CVE-2024-49875 was published on 2024-10-21 and last updated on 2026-06-17.

References

Affected products (1)

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