CVE-2024-49868

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2024-10-21. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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

btrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference when failed to start a new trasacntion

[BUG] Syzbot reported a NULL pointer dereference with the following crash:

FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure. start_transaction+0x830/0x1670 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:676 prepare_to_relocate+0x31f/0x4c0 fs/btrfs/relocation.c:3642 relocate_block_group+0x169/0xd20 fs/btrfs/relocation.c:3678 ... BTRFS info (device loop0): balance: ended with status: -12 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000660-0x0000000000000667] RIP: 0010:btrfs_update_reloc_root+0x362/0xa80 fs/btrfs/relocation.c:926 Call Trace: commit_fs_roots+0x2ee/0x720 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1496 btrfs_commit_transaction+0xfaf/0x3740 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2430 del_balance_item fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3678 [inline] reset_balance_state+0x25e/0x3c0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3742 btrfs_balance+0xead/0x10c0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4574 btrfs_ioctl_balance+0x493/0x7c0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3673 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 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

[CAUSE] The allocation failure happens at the start_transaction() inside prepare_to_relocate(), and during the error handling we call unset_reloc_control(), which makes fs_info->balance_ctl to be NULL.

Then we continue the error path cleanup in btrfs_balance() by calling reset_balance_state() which will call del_balance_item() to fully delete the balance item in the root tree.

However during the small window between set_reloc_contrl() and unset_reloc_control(), we can have a subvolume tree update and created a reloc_root for that subvolume.

Then we go into the final btrfs_commit_transaction() of del_balance_item(), and into btrfs_update_reloc_root() inside commit_fs_roots().

That function checks if fs_info->reloc_ctl is in the merge_reloc_tree stage, but since fs_info->reloc_ctl is NULL, it results a NULL pointer dereference.

[FIX] Just add extra check on fs_info->reloc_ctl inside btrfs_update_reloc_root(), before checking fs_info->reloc_ctl->merge_reloc_tree.

That DEAD_RELOC_TREE handling is to prevent further modification to the reloc tree during merge stage, but since there is no reloc_ctl at all, we do not need to bother that.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
25(Track)
EG Risk 25/100SSVC: Track

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How it’s computed
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
21%
KEV
Not listed

Published

October 21, 2024

Last Modified

November 3, 2025

References (10)

Patch Availability(31)

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ubuntulinux-tools-aws-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1073.73) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.127.137~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-lts-20.04 (5.4.0.1138.131) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oem-24.04b (6.11.0-1015.15) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.127.126) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-1005.5) @ oracular2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-intel-iotg (5.15.0.1071.71) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1078.76) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-18.18) @ oracular2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-edge (5.15.0.1078.87~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-host (5.15.0-1039.43) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.208.204) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-lts-20.04 (5.4.0.1143.145) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-20.04 (5.4.0.1086.115) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1020.21) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-kvm (5.4.0.1127.123) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1025.30) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1022.22) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oem-24.04a (6.8.0-1024.24) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-fips (5.4.0.1116.113) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-5.4.0-1058 (5.4.0-1058.62) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gkeop-6.8 (6.8.0-1006.8) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-lowlatency-64k (6.8.0-1022.25.2) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-lowlatency-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-54.56.1~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi (6.8.0-1019.23) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1023.25) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.1129.142~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-nvidia (6.8.0-1014.15) @ noble2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi2-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.1129.160) @ focal2026-05-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-edge (6.8.0-1025.30~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-23ubuntu
linuxKernel @ 5.4.285—osv

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Weakness Classification(1)

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-49868?
CVE-2024-49868 is a medium vulnerability published on October 21, 2024. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference when failed to start a new trasacntion [BUG] Syzbot reported a NULL pointer dereference with the following crash: FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure. start_transaction+0x830/0x1670…
When was CVE-2024-49868 disclosed?
CVE-2024-49868 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on October 21, 2024, with the most recent update on November 3, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2024-49868 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-49868 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 79.0% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-49868?
CVE-2024-49868 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-49868?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2024-49868, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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