Answer in brief
CVE-2024-50250 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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A CVSS score is not reported in the current record. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=1bec6782a25c9b92c203ea7a1b3e3dc6a468cbc4 <bdbc96c23197d773a7d1bf03e4f11de593b0ff28 || >=d984648e428bf88cbd94ebe346c73632cb92fffb <9bc18bb476e50e32e5d08f2734d63d63e0fa528c || >=d984648e428bf88cbd94ebe346c73632cb92fffb <8e9c0f500b42216ef930f5c0d1703989a451913d || >=d984648e428bf88cbd94ebe346c73632cb92fffb <50793801fc7f6d08def48754fb0f0706b0cfc394 || >=6.1.113 <6.1.116 | bdbc96c23197d773a7d1bf03e4f11de593b0ff28, 9bc18bb476e50e32e5d08f2734d63d63e0fa528c, 8e9c0f500b42216ef930f5c0d1703989a451913d, 50793801fc7f6d08def48754fb0f0706b0cfc394, 6.1.116 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.2 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Nov 9, 2024
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 5, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 5, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks The code that copies data from srcmap to iomap in dax_unshare_iter is very very broken, which bfoster's recent fsx changes have exposed. If the pos and len passed to dax_file_unshare are not aligned to an fsblock boundary, the iter pos and length in the _iter function will reflect this unalignment. dax_iomap_direct_access always returns a pointer to the start of the kmapped fsdax page, even if its pos argument is in the middle of that page. This is catastrophic for data integrity when iter->pos is not aligned to a page, because daddr/saddr do not point to the same byte in the file as iter->pos. Hence we corrupt user data by copying it to the wrong place. If iter->pos + iomap_length() in the _iter function not aligned to a page, then we fail to copy a full block, and only partially populate the destination block. This is catastrophic for data confidentiality because we expose stale pmem contents. Fix both of these issues by aligning copy_pos/copy_len to a page boundary (remember, this is fsdax so 1 fsblock == 1 base page) so that we always copy full blocks. We're not done yet -- there's no call to invalidate_inode_pages2_range, so programs that have the file range mmap'd will continue accessing the old memory mapping after the file metadata updates have completed. Be careful with the return value -- if the unshare succeeds, we still need to return the number of bytes that the iomap iter thinks we're operating on.
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