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CVE-2024-55641

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-55641 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the XFS filesystem. It involves a deadlock scenario where inodes remain locked during filesystem unmounting after I/O errors and failed quota reservations, leading to system hangs. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this local vulnerability requires low privileges and local access, resulting in high availability impact (system hang). There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.10, < 6.12.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
6.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0017 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-55641Moderate

kernel: xfs: unlock inodes when erroring out of xfs_trans_alloc_dir

Jan 11, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/53b001a21c9dff73b64e8c909c41991f01d5d00f
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/6aefe5d97ae57b1343dc60d8bb6a4ed070e5bcea
Patch