CVE-2024-26973
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles When fat_encode_fh_nostale() encodes file handle without a parent it stores only first 10 bytes of the file handle. However the length of the file handle must be a multiple of 4 so the file handle is actually 12 bytes long and the last two bytes remain uninitialized. This is not great at we potentially leak uninitialized information with the handle to userspace. Properly initialize the full handle length.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 9 | fixed | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 6.1.85-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.10.216-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 6.7.12-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 6.7.12-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 6.7.12-1 |
| debian | 10.0 | affected | |
| linux-kernel | affected | 4.19.312 | |
| almalinux | 8 | fixed | kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03a7e3f2ba3ca25f1da1d3898709a08db14c1abb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74f852654b8b7866f15323685f1e178d3386c688
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9840d1897e28f8733cc1e38f97e044f987dc0a63
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a276c595c3a629170b0f052a3724f755d7c6adc6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7fb63e807c6dadf7ecc1d43448c4f1711d7eeee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8cc05de8e6b5612b6e9f92c385c1a064b0db375
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdd33d54e789d229d6d5007cbf3f53965ca1a5c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f52d7663a10a1266a2d3871a6dd8fd111edc549f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde2497d2bc3a063d8af88b258dbadc86bd7b57c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:3627
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:3618
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26973.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-26973
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2250843
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2257406
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2263875
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265271
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265646
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265654
CWEs
CWE-908
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.