CVE-2024-23850

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-617

Description

In btrfs_get_root_ref in fs/btrfs/disk-io.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1, there can be an assertion failure and crash because a subvolume can be read out too soon after its root item is inserted upon subvolume creation.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 6.7.1

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZOU3745CWCDZ7EMKMXB2OEEIB5Q3IWM/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a80cb4b32af89787dadee728310e5e2ca85343f.1705741883.git.wqu%40suse.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALGdzuo6awWdau3X=8XK547x2vX_-VoFmH1aPsqosRTQ5WzJVA%40mail.gmail.com/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZOU3745CWCDZ7EMKMXB2OEEIB5Q3IWM/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZOU3745CWCDZ7EMKMXB2OEEIB5Q3IWM/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a80cb4b32af89787dadee728310e5e2ca85343f.1705741883.git.wqu%40suse.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALGdzuo6awWdau3X=8XK547x2vX_-VoFmH1aPsqosRTQ5WzJVA%40mail.gmail.com/

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