CVE-2024-44939
Published: Aug 26, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix null ptr deref in dtInsertEntry [syzbot reported] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 0 PID: 5061 Comm: syz-executor404 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024 RIP: 0010:dtInsertEntry+0xd0c/0x1780 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:3713 ... [Analyze] In dtInsertEntry(), when the pointer h has the same value as p, after writing name in UniStrncpy_to_le(), p->header.flag will be cleared. This will cause the previously true judgment "p->header.flag & BT-LEAF" to change to no after writing the name operation, this leads to entering an incorrect branch and accessing the uninitialized object ih when judging this condition for the second time. [Fix] After got the page, check freelist first, if freelist == 0 then exit dtInsert() and return -EINVAL.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < f98bf80b20f4a930589cda48a35f751a64fe0dc2affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 53023ab11836ac56fd75f7a71ec1356e50920fa9affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 6ea10dbb1e6c58384136e9adfd75f81951e423f6affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 9c2ac38530d1a3ee558834dfa16c85a40fd0e702affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < ce6dede912f064a855acf6f04a04cbb2c25b8c8c |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 5.15.189 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.107 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.47 - <= 6.6.*+2 more versions |
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