CVE-2024-44963

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via BUG_ON in btrfs_free_tree_block

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do not BUG_ON() when freeing tree block after error When freeing a tree block, at btrfs_free_tree_block(), if we fail to create a delayed reference we don't deal with the error and just do a BUG_ON(). The error most likely to happen is -ENOMEM, and we have a comment mentioning that only -ENOMEM can happen, but that is not true, because in case qgroups are enabled any error returned from btrfs_qgroup_trace_extent_post() (can be -EUCLEAN or anything returned from btrfs_search_slot() for example) can be propagated back to btrfs_free_tree_block(). So stop doing a BUG_ON() and return the error to the callers and make them abort the transaction to prevent leaking space. Syzbot was triggering this, likely due to memory allocation failure injection.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 4.11.0 - 6.6.64linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.5linux
Linux/Linux < 4.11
Linux/Linux 4.11
Linux/Linux 6.10.5 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.6.64 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux fb235dc06fac9eaa4408ade9c8b20d45d63c89b7 - 22d907bcd283d69d5e60497fc0d51969545c583b
Linux/Linux fb235dc06fac9eaa4408ade9c8b20d45d63c89b7 - 98251cd60b4d702a8a81de442ab621e83a3fb24f
Linux/Linux fb235dc06fac9eaa4408ade9c8b20d45d63c89b7 - bb3868033a4cccff7be57e9145f2117cbdc91c11
... and 1 more
Published Sep 04, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026