{"id":"CVE-2024-49999","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-49999","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:15:10.428Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag In afs_wait_for_operation(), we set transcribe the call responded flag to the server record that we used after doing the fileserver…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag\n\nIn afs_wait_for_operation(), we set transcribe the call responded flag to\nthe server record that we used after doing the fileserver iteration loop -\nbut it's possible to exit the loop having had a response from the server\nthat we've discarded (e.g. it returned an abort or we started receiving\ndata, but the call didn't complete).\n\nThis means that op->server might be NULL, but we don't check that before\nattempting to set the server flag.","published":"2024-10-21T18:15:20.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T11:21:08.000Z","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":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00572,"percentile":0.47053,"date":"2026-10-26","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 (0.57%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d51ab44123f35dd1d646d99a15ebef10f55e263","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97c953572d98080c5f1486155350bb688041747a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff98751bae40faed1ba9c6a7287e84430f7dec64","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49999","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."}