CVE-2024-53101

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.19.324 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: Fix uninitialized value issue in from_kuid and from_kgid ocfs2_setattr() uses attr->ia_mode, attr->ia_uid and attr->ia_gid in a trace point even though ATTR_MODE, ATTR_UID and ATTR_GID aren't set. Initialize all fields of newattrs to avoid uninitialized variables, by checking if ATTR_MODE, ATTR_UID, ATTR_GID are initialized, otherwise 0.

References (10)

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15f34347481648a567db67fb473c23befb796af5

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ecb40c5cc7755a321fb6148cba5797431ee5b8

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c28bca1256aecece6e94b26b85cd07e08b0dc90

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cb5bfc5bfc651982b6203c224d49b7ddacf28bc

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a72b0d3497b818d8f000c347a7c11801eb27bfc

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9db25c2b41c34963c3ccf473b08171f87670652e

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0c77e5e3dcbffc7c6080ccc89c037f0c86496cf

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3e612bd8f64ce62e731e95f635e06a2efe3c80c

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 0.6%

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

CWE

CWE-908

Status published

Products (9)

linux/Kernel 2.6.39 - 4.19.324linux

linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.286linux

linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.173linux

linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.118linux

linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.230linux

linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.62linux

linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.11.9linux

linux/linux_kernel 6.12 rc1 (7 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.19.324

Published Nov 25, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026