CVE-2024-50279
highpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.003 · 17 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm cache: fix out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset when resizing dm-cache checks the dirty bits of the cache blocks to be dropped when shrinking the fast device, but an index bug in bitset iteration causes out-of-bounds access. Reproduce steps: 1. create a cache device of 1024 cache blocks (128 bytes dirty bitset) dmsetup create cmeta --table "0 8192 linear /dev/sdc 0" dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup create corig --table "0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct dmsetup create cache --table "0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \ /dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0" 2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80) dmsetup suspend cache dmsetup reload cdata --table "0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192" dmsetup resume cdata dmsetup resume cache KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0 Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131 (...snip...) The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at [ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by: cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0 (...snip...) Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 Fix by making the index post-incremented.
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- FixedRUGGEDCOM RST2428P (6GK6242-6PA00)siemens_psirt
Update to V3.2 or later version
https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109988839/ - FixedSCALANCE XC-300/XR-300/XC-400/XR-500WG/XR-500 familysiemens_psirt
See Section Additional Information.
- FixedSCALANCE XCM-/XRM-/XCH-/XRH-300 familysiemens_psirt
Update to V3.2 or later version
https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109988839/ - FixedRUGGEDCOM RST2428P (6GK6242-6PA00)cisa_csaf_ot
Update to V3.2 or later version
https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109988839/ - FixedSCALANCE XC-300/XR-300/XC-400/XR-500WG/XR-500 familycisa_csaf_ot
See Section Additional Information.
- FixedSCALANCE XCM-/XRM-/XCH-/XRH-300 familycisa_csaf_ot
Update to V3.2 or later version
https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109988839/
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.5–7.1
ssvc
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affected products (94)
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advisories (3)
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- SSA-355557SSA-355557: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Third-Party Components in SINEC OS before V3.22025-08-12csaf · siemens_psirtDE
SINEC OS before V3.2 contains third-party components with multiple vulnerabilities. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions.
- WID-SEC-W-2024-3497Linux Kernel: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-11-18csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Linux Kernel ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen oderum einen nicht näher spezifizierten Angriff durchzuführen.
- ICSA-25-226-07Siemens Third-Party Components in SINEC OS2025-08-12icsa · cisa_csaf_otUS
SINEC OS before V3.2 contains third-party components with multiple vulnerabilities. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions.
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references (27)
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b02c40ff10fdf83cc545850db208de855ebe22ccnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa4feb873cea0e9d6ff883b37cca6f33169d8b4cnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56507203e1b6127967ec2b51fb0b23a0d4af1334cnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/792227719725497ce10a8039803bec13f89f8910cnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8501e38dc9e0060814c4085815fc83da3e6d43bfcnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e57648ce325fa405fe6bbd0e6a618ced7c301a2dcnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1f74925717ab36f6a091104c170639501ce818cnnvd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1dd8a04c30e8d4e2fd5c83198ca672eb6a9e7fcnnvd
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