CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-50017

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 21, 2024Sources checked Oct 24, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-50017 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

6.6.78.1-1

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-2024-50017?

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

x86/mm/ident_map: Use gbpages only where full GB page should be mapped.

When ident_pud_init() uses only GB pages to create identity maps, large ranges of addresses not actually requested can be included in the resulting table; a 4K request will map a full GB. This can include a lot of extra address space past that requested, including areas marked reserved by the BIOS.

That allows processor speculation into reserved regions, that on UV systems can cause system halts.

Only use GB pages when map creation requests include the full GB page of space. Fall back to using smaller 2M pages when only portions of a GB page are included in the request.

No attempt is made to coalesce mapping requests. If a request requires a map entry at the 2M (pmd) level, subsequent mapping requests within the same 1G region will also be at the pmd level, even if adjacent or overlapping such requests could have been combined to map a full GB page.

Existing usage starts with larger regions and then adds smaller regions, so this should not have any great consequence.

Source: NVD