CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-49957
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix null-ptr-deref when journal load failed.
During the mounting process, if journal_reset() fails because of too short
journal, then lead to jbd2_journal_load() fails with NULL j_sb_buffer.
Subsequently, ocfs2_journal_shutdown() calls
jbd2_journal_flush()->jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()->
__jbd2_update_log_tail()->jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail()
->lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer), resulting in a null-pointer
dereference error.
To resolve this issue, we should check the JBD2_LOADED flag to ensure the
journal was properly loaded. Additionally, use journal instead of
osb->journal directly to simplify the code.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.32 < 5.10.227)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.168)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.113)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.55)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/387bf565cc03e2e8c720b8b4798efea4aacb6962 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5784d9fcfd43bd853654bb80c87ef293b9e8e80a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/703b2c7e0798d263154dc8593dc2345f75dc077f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82dfdd1e31e774578f76ce6dc90c834f96403a0f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86a89e75e9e4dfa768b97db466ad6bedf2e7ea5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf605ae98dab5c15c5b631d4d7f88898cb41b649 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f60e94a83db799bde625ac8671a5b4a6354e7120 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd89d92c1140cee8f59de336cb37fa65e359c123 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff55291fb36779819211b596da703389135f5b05 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org