# CVE-2024-49887: f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection

> A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic in the f2fs filesystem via fault injection, causing a system-wide denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-49887, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49887, GHSA-c3cx-mm7p-wgj8, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2024-49887, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-49887

## What is CVE-2024-49887?

CVE-2024-49887 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection

f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection

syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:

F2FS-fs (loop0): inject no free segment in get_new_segment of __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167
F2FS-fs (loop0): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 7
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748!
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5109 Comm: syz-executor304 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00363-g89f5e14d05b4 #0
RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline]
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836
Call Trace:
 __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167
 f2fs_allocate_new_section fs/f2fs/segment.c:3181 [inline]
 f2fs_allocate_pinning_section+0xfa/0x4e0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3195
 f2fs_expand_inode_data+0x5d6/0xbb0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1799
 f2fs_fallocate+0x448/0x960 fs/f2fs/file.c:1903
 vfs_fallocate+0x553/0x6c0 fs/open.c:334
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x2592/0x2e50 fs/ioctl.c:886
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:905 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x81/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline]
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836

The root cause is when we inject no free segment fault into f2fs,
we should not panic system, fix it.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-49887?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-49887?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-49887 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49887 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-49887 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-49887 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49887 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49887/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49887/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49887
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49887
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49887

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