CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-49957

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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