CVE-2024-49889CWE-416

CVE-2024-49889

High · published October 21, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ext4: avoid use-after-free in ext4_ext_show_leaf()

In ext4_find_extent(), path may be freed by error or be reallocated, so

using a previously saved *ppath may have been freed and thus may trigger

use-after-free, as follows:

ext4_split_extent

path = *ppath;

ext4_split_extent_at(ppath)

path = ext4_find_extent(ppath)

ext4_split_extent_at(ppath)

// ext4_find_extent fails to free path

// but zeroout succeeds

ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, path)

eh = path[depth].p_hdr

// path use-after-free !!!

Similar to ext4_split_extent_at(), we use *ppath directly as an input to

ext4_ext_show_leaf(). Fix a spelling error by the way.

Same problem in ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents(). Since 'path' is only

used in ext4_ext_show_leaf(), remove 'path' and use *ppath directly.

This issue is triggered only when EXT_DEBUG is defined and therefore does

not affect functionality.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00257 · 16.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2024-10-21T22:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 5.10.2275.10.227
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1685.15.168
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1136.1.113
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.556.6.55
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.146.10.14
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.11, < 6.11.36.11.3
References (11)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 OCT 18:01Z
    ext4: avoid use-after-free in ext4_ext_show_leaf()
    cvelistv5