CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-43828
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-08-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix infinite loop when replaying fast_commit
When doing fast_commit replay an infinite loop may occur due to an
uninitialized extent_status struct. ext4_ext_determine_insert_hole() does
not detect the replay and calls ext4_es_find_extent_range(), which will
return immediately without initializing the 'es' variable.
Because 'es' contains garbage, an integer overflow may happen causing an
infinite loop in this function, easily reproducible using fstest generic/039.
This commit fixes this issue by unconditionally initializing the structure
in function ext4_es_find_extent_range().
Thanks to Zhang Yi, for figuring out the real problem!
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10 < 5.10.224)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.44)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0619f7750f2b178a1309808832ab20d85e0ad121 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/181e63cd595c688194e07332f9944b3a63193de2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ed0496e383cb6de120e56991385dce70bbb87c1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81f819c537d29932e4b9267f02411cbc8b355178 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/907c3fe532253a6ef4eb9c4d67efb71fab58c706 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6e67df64783e99a657ef2b8c834ba2bf54c539c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html cert-portal.siemens.com