CVE-2024-50230

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of checked flag Syzbot reported that in directory operations after nilfs2 detects filesystem corruption and degrades to read-only, __block_write_begin_int(), which is called to prepare block writes, may fail the BUG_ON check for accesses exceeding the folio/page size, triggering a kernel bug. This was found to be because the "checked" flag of a page/folio was not cleared when it was discarded by nilfs2's own routine, which causes the sanity check of directory entries to be skipped when the directory page/folio is reloaded. So, fix that. This was necessary when the use of nilfs2's own page discard routine was applied to more than just metadata files.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e192ad2779cae0102879612dfe46726e4396aa ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e192ad2779cae0102879612dfe46726e4396aaPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56c6171932a7fb267ac6cb4ff8759b93ee1d0e2ePatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64afad73e4623308d8943645e5631f2c7a2d7971Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/994b2fa13a6c9cf3feca93090a9c337d48e3d60dPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa0cee46c5d3fd9a39575a4c8a4f65f25f095b89Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd0cdb51b15203fa27d4b714be83b7dfffa0b752Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f05dbebb8ee34882505d53d83af7d18f28a49248Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2f1fa446676c21edb777e6d2bc4fa8f956fab68Patch