CVE-2024-56619

HIGH

Linux Kernel Use-After-Free in nilfs_find_entry()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential out-of-bounds memory access in nilfs_find_entry() Syzbot reported that when searching for records in a directory where the inode's i_size is corrupted and has a large value, memory access outside the folio/page range may occur, or a use-after-free bug may be detected if KASAN is enabled. This is because nilfs_last_byte(), which is called by nilfs_find_entry() and others to calculate the number of valid bytes of directory data in a page from i_size and the page index, loses the upper 32 bits of the 64-bit size information due to an inappropriate type of local variable to which the i_size value is assigned. This caused a large byte offset value due to underflow in the end address calculation in the calling nilfs_find_entry(), resulting in memory access that exceeds the folio/page size. Fix this issue by changing the type of the local variable causing the bit loss from "unsigned int" to "u64". The return value of nilfs_last_byte() is also of type "unsigned int", but it is truncated so as not to exceed PAGE_SIZE and no bit loss occurs, so no change is required.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (24)
linux/Kernel 2.6.30 - 5.4.287linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.174linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.120linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.231linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.66linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.5linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.30
Linux/Linux 2.6.30
Linux/Linux 2ba466d74ed74f073257f86e61519cb8f8f46184 - 09d6d05579fd46e61abf6e457bb100ff11f3a9d3
Linux/Linux 2ba466d74ed74f073257f86e61519cb8f8f46184 - 31f7b57a77d4c82a34ddcb6ff35b5aa577ef153e
... and 14 more
Published Dec 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026