Vulnerability · Published Oct 21, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-50060io_uring: check if we need to reschedule during overflow flush

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: check if we need to reschedule during overflow flush In terms of normal application usage, this list will always be empty. And if an application does overflow a bit, it'll have a few entries. However, nothing obviously prevents syzbot from running a test case that generates a ton of overflow entries, and then flushing them can take quite a while. Check for needing to reschedule while flushing, and drop our locks and do so if necessary. There's no state to maintain here as overflows always prune from head-of-list, hence it's fine to drop and reacquire the locks at the end of the loop.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9kernel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-abi-stablelists5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-cross-headers5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-uki-virt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-doc5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-headers5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt-addons5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9libperf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9perf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9python3-perf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9rtla5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9rv5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
Debian:12linux6.1.115-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50060
Debian:13linux6.11.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50060
Debian:14linux6.11.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50060
Rocky Linux:9kernel0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7RLSA-2025:20518
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-179.189UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-179.189USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-56.58UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-56.58USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1108.115USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1108.115UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1025.27USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1025.27UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1114.123UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1114.123USN-8426-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1025.30UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1025.30~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1114.123UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1014.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1108.117USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1108.117UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1026.28UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1026.28USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1026.28~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1026.28~22.04.1USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1104.110USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1104.110UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1021.25USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1021.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1091.99UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1091.99USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1008.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1008.10USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-57.59~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1102.105UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1102.105USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1022.22UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1023.23~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1103.109USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1103.109UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1100.105UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1100.105USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-178.188UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-178.188USN-8291-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-56.58.1USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-56.58.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1103.104UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1103.104USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1024.27USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1024.27UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1024.27~22.04.1USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1024.27~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1024.27.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1024.27.1USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1060.60USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1060.60UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1004.4UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1049.49UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1049.49USN-8279-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1024.24UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1105.111UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1105.111USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1022.23UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1022.23USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1022.23~22.04.1USN-7383-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1022.23~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1102.105UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1102.105USN-8279-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1028.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-56.58.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1017.18UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1074.78USN-8528-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1074.78UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50060

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e – before a2493904e95ce94bbec819d8f7f03b99976eb25c2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e – before f4ce3b5d26ce149e77e6b8e8f2058aa80e5b034e2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e – before c2eadeafce2d385b3f6d26a7f31fee5aba2bbbb02b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e – before eac2ca2d682f94f46b1973bdf5e77d85d77b8e53
Linux Linux 5.1

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