CVE-2024-50143

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base

7.8 HIGH

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

EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)

0.3%

20.4th percentile

CISA KEV

Not listed

Weakness / dates

CWE-908

Published 2024-11-07 · modified 2026-08-04

CVSS breakdown

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

Attack Vector	L	Local
Attack Complexity	L	Low
Privileges Required	N	None
User Interaction	R	Required
Scope	U	Unchanged
Confidentiality	H	High
Integrity	H	High
Availability	H	High

Timeline

2024-11-07 — Published (NVD)
2026-08-04 — Last modified (NVD)

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad Check for overflow when computing alen in udf_current_aext to mitigate later uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad KMSAN bug[1]. After applying the patch reproducer did not trigger any issue[2]. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8901c4560b7ab5c2f9df [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10242227980000

Affected

linux

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org