CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-53130
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-04
- 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:
nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_dirty_buffer tracepoint
When using the "block:block_dirty_buffer" tracepoint, mark_buffer_dirty()
may cause a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when
KASAN is enabled.
This happens because, since the tracepoint was added in
mark_buffer_dirty(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev
regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device
structure.
In the current implementation, nilfs_grab_buffer(), which grabs a buffer
to read (or create) a block of metadata, including b-tree node blocks,
does not set the block device, but instead does so only if the buffer is
not in the "uptodate" state for each of its caller block reading
functions. However, if the uptodate flag is set on a folio/page, and the
buffer heads are detached from it by try_to_free_buffers(), and new buffer
heads are then attached by create_empty_buffers(), the uptodate flag may
be restored to each buffer without the block device being set to
bh->b_bdev, and mark_buffer_dirty() may be called later in that state,
resulting in the bug mentioned above.
Fix this issue by making nilfs_grab_buffer() always set the block device
of the super block structure to the buffer head, regardless of the state
of the buffer's uptodate flag.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.9 < 6.1.119)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.0 < 6.6.63)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11.0 < 6.11.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a5014ad37c77ac6a2c525137c00a0e1724f6020 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ce59fb1c73fdd5b6028226aeb46259a0cdc0957 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2026559a6c4ce34db117d2db8f710fe2a9420d5a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7af3309c7a2ef26831a67125b11c34a7e01c1b2a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86b19031dbc79abc378dfae357f6ea33ebeb0c95 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0e4765740040c44039282057ecacd7435d1d2ba Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d904e4d845aafbcfd8a40c1df7d999f02f062be8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffc440a76a0f476a7e6ea838ec0dc8e9979944d1 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