CVE-2024-49900
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer syzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178 ... Uninit was stored to memory at: ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline] ... Local variable ea_buf created at: __jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662 __jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934 ===================================================== The reason is ea_buf->new_ea is not initialized properly. Fix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning in ea_get().
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 6.1.115-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.10.234-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 6.11.4-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 6.11.4-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 6.11.4-1 |
| linux-kernel | affected | 5.10.227 |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b59ffad47db1c46af25ccad157bb3b25147c35c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6041536d18c5f51a84bc37cd568cbab61870031e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b24d41d47a6805c45378debf8bd115675d41da8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c244d5b48284a770d96ff703df2dfeadf804a73
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ad8b531de79c348bcb8133e7f5e827b884226af
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b1dcf25c26d42e4a68c4725ce52a0543c7878cc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c076b3746224982eebdba5c9e4b1467e146c0d64
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7444f91a9f93eaa48827087ed0f3381c194181d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dac398ed272a378d2f42ac68ae408333a51baf52
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49900.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-49900
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.