How severe is CVE-2024-49994?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2024-49994?

This is classified as CWE-190, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2024-49994 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 5.5

Vulnerability Description

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. Same problem: uint64_t r[2] = {512, 18446744073709551104ULL}; ioctl(fd, BLKSECDISCARD, r); will enter near infinite loop inside blkdev_issue_secure_erase(): a.out: attempt to access beyond end of device loop0: rw=5, sector=3399043073, nr_sectors = 1024 limit=2048 bio_check_eod: 3286214 callbacks suppressed

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