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CVE-2024-49900

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CVE-2024-49900

Published: Oct 21, 2024

Modified: May 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

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().

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 7b24d41d47a6805c45378debf8bd115675d41da8
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < dac398ed272a378d2f42ac68ae408333a51baf52
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 8b1dcf25c26d42e4a68c4725ce52a0543c7878cc
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < d7444f91a9f93eaa48827087ed0f3381c194181d
affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 6041536d18c5f51a84bc37cd568cbab61870031e

+4 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.12
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.12
unaffected
4.19.323 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.285 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.227 - <= 5.10.*

+6 more versions

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