CVE-2024-50116

nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of buffer delay flag

Medium · published November 5, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of buffer delay flag

Syzbot reported that after nilfs2 reads a corrupted file system image

and degrades to read-only, the BUG_ON check for the buffer delay flag

in submit_bh_wbc() may fail, causing a kernel bug.

This is because the buffer delay flag is not cleared when clearing the

buffer state flags to discard a page/folio or a buffer head. So, fix

this.

This became necessary when the use of nilfs2's own page clear routine

was expanded. This state inconsistency does not occur if the buffer

is written normally by log writing.

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
0.00243 · 14.7th percentile
Published
2024-11-05T17:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 NOV 17:10Z
    nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of buffer delay flag
    cvelistv5