CVE-2024-43828CWE-835

CVE-2024-43828

Medium · published August 17, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix infinite loop when replaying fast_commit

When doing fast_commit replay an infinite loop may occur due to an

uninitialized extent_status struct. ext4_ext_determine_insert_hole() does

not detect the replay and calls ext4_es_find_extent_range(), which will

return immediately without initializing the 'es' variable.

Because 'es' contains garbage, an integer overflow may happen causing an

infinite loop in this function, easily reproducible using fstest generic/039.

This commit fixes this issue by unconditionally initializing the structure

in function ext4_es_find_extent_range().

Thanks to Zhang Yi, for figuring out the real problem!

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00239 · 14.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2024-08-17T14:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.10, < 5.10.2245.10.224
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1655.15.165
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1036.1.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.446.6.44
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.36.10.3
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 AUG 09:21Z
    ext4: fix infinite loop when replaying fast_commit
    cvelistv5