{"id":"CVE-2024-49994","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-49994","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T11:37:37.802Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix integer overflow in BLKSECDISCARD I independently rediscovered commit 22d24a544b0d49bbcbd61c8c0eaf77d3c9297155 block: fix overflow in blk_ioctl_discard() but for secure erase.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: fix integer overflow in BLKSECDISCARD\n\nI independently rediscovered\n\n\tcommit 22d24a544b0d49bbcbd61c8c0eaf77d3c9297155\n\tblock: fix overflow in blk_ioctl_discard()\n\nbut for secure erase.\n\nSame problem:\n\n\tuint64_t r[2] = {512, 18446744073709551104ULL};\n\tioctl(fd, BLKSECDISCARD, r);\n\nwill enter near infinite loop inside blkdev_issue_secure_erase():\n\n\ta.out: attempt to access beyond end of device\n\tloop0: rw=5, sector=3399043073, nr_sectors = 1024 limit=2048\n\tbio_check_eod: 3286214 callbacks suppressed","published":"2024-10-21T18:15:20.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T01:19:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-190"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00241,"percentile":0.15102,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0842ddd83939eb4db940b9af7d39e79722bc41aa","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/697ba0b6ec4ae04afb67d3911799b5e2043b4455","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c9915fa9410cbb9bd75ee283c03120046c56d3d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8476f8428e8b48fd7a0e4258fa2a96a8f4468239","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a99bacb35c1416355eef957560e8fcac3a665549","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49994","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}