{"id":"CVE-2024-57875","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-57875","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:30:19.601Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: RCU protect disk->conv_zones_bitmap Ensure that a disk revalidation changing the conventional zones bitmap of a disk does not cause invalid memory references when using the…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: RCU protect disk->conv_zones_bitmap\n\nEnsure that a disk revalidation changing the conventional zones bitmap\nof a disk does not cause invalid memory references when using the\ndisk_zone_is_conv() helper by RCU protecting the disk->conv_zones_bitmap\npointer.\n\ndisk_zone_is_conv() is modified to operate under the RCU read lock and\nthe function disk_set_conv_zones_bitmap() is added to update a disk\nconv_zones_bitmap pointer using rcu_replace_pointer() with the disk\nzone_wplugs_lock spinlock held.\n\ndisk_free_zone_resources() is modified to call\ndisk_update_zone_resources() with a NULL bitmap pointer to free the disk\nconv_zones_bitmap. disk_set_conv_zones_bitmap() is also used in\ndisk_update_zone_resources() to set the new (revalidated) bitmap and\nfree the old one.","published":"2025-01-11T15:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T22:18:04.000Z","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-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00195,"percentile":0.09085,"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 (0.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/493326c4f10cc71a42c27fdc97ce112182ee4cbc","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7cb6d7414ea1b33536fa6d11805cb8dceec1f97","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57875","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."}