CVE-2024-46840

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Btrfs Snapshot Deletion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: clean up our handling of refs == 0 in snapshot delete In reada we BUG_ON(refs == 0), which could be unkind since we aren't holding a lock on the extent leaf and thus could get a transient incorrect answer. In walk_down_proc we also BUG_ON(refs == 0), which could happen if we have extent tree corruption. Change that to return -EUCLEAN. In do_walk_down() we catch this case and handle it correctly, however we return -EIO, which -EUCLEAN is a more appropriate error code. Finally in walk_up_proc we have the same BUG_ON(refs == 0), so convert that to proper error handling. Also adjust the error message so we can actually do something with the information.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.8%
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 (26)
linux/Kernel 2.6.31 - 4.19.322linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.284linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.167linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.110linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.226linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.51linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.10linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.31
Linux/Linux 2.6.31
Linux/Linux 2c47e605a91dde6b0514f689645e7ab336c8592a - 03804641ec2d0da4fa088ad21c88e703d151ce16
... and 16 more
Published Sep 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026