Published Aug 26, 2024Sources checked Nov 11, 2026
5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2024-44938 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
5.15.182.1-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2024-44938?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dbDiscardAG
When searching for the next smaller log2 block, BLKSTOL2() returned 0, causing shift exponent -1 to be negative.
This patch fixes the issue by exiting the loop directly when negative shift is found.