CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-44939
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix null ptr deref in dtInsertEntry
[syzbot reported]
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 PID: 5061 Comm: syz-executor404 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
RIP: 0010:dtInsertEntry+0xd0c/0x1780 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:3713
...
[Analyze]
In dtInsertEntry(), when the pointer h has the same value as p, after writing
name in UniStrncpy_to_le(), p->header.flag will be cleared. This will cause the
previously true judgment "p->header.flag & BT-LEAF" to change to no after writing
the name operation, this leads to entering an incorrect branch and accessing the
uninitialized object ih when judging this condition for the second time.
[Fix]
After got the page, check freelist first, if freelist == 0 then exit dtInsert()
and return -EINVAL.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.6.47)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53023ab11836ac56fd75f7a71ec1356e50920fa9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ea10dbb1e6c58384136e9adfd75f81951e423f6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c2ac38530d1a3ee558834dfa16c85a40fd0e702 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce6dede912f064a855acf6f04a04cbb2c25b8c8c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f98bf80b20f4a930589cda48a35f751a64fe0dc2 git.kernel.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org