CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-53690
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-11
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: prevent use of deleted inode
syzbot reported a WARNING in nilfs_rmdir. [1]
Because the inode bitmap is corrupted, an inode with an inode number that
should exist as a ".nilfs" file was reassigned by nilfs_mkdir for "file0",
causing an inode duplication during execution. And this causes an
underflow of i_nlink in rmdir operations.
The inode is used twice by the same task to unmount and remove directories
".nilfs" and "file0", it trigger warning in nilfs_rmdir.
Avoid to this issue, check i_nlink in nilfs_iget(), if it is 0, it means
that this inode has been deleted, and iput is executed to reclaim it.
[1]
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5824 at fs/inode.c:407 drop_nlink+0xc4/0x110 fs/inode.c:407
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nilfs_rmdir+0x1b0/0x250 fs/nilfs2/namei.c:342
vfs_rmdir+0x3a3/0x510 fs/namei.c:4394
do_rmdir+0x3b5/0x580 fs/namei.c:4453
__do_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:4472 [inline]
__se_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:4470 [inline]
__x64_sys_rmdir+0x47/0x50 fs/namei.c:4470
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.30 < 5.4.289)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.233)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.122)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.68)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.13
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/284760b320a0bac411b18108316939707dccb12b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55e4baa0d32f0530ddc64c26620e1f2f8fa2724c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d4ed71327b0b5f3b179a19dc3c06be9509ab3db Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/901ce9705fbb9f330ff1f19600e5daf9770b0175 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/912188316a8c9e41b8c1603c2276a05043b14f96 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef942d233643777f7b2a5deef620e82942983143 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff561987ff12b6a3233431ff659b5d332e22f153 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org