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CVE-2024-40962· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Linux

btrfs: zoned: allocate dummy checksums for zoned NODATASUM writes

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.24% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 082b3d4e788953a3ff42ecdb70c4210149076285, 25cfe59f4470a051d1b80f51fa0ca3a5048e4a19, cebae292e0c32a228e8f2219c270a7237be24a6a.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 082b3d4e788953a3ff42ecdb70c4210149076285, 25cfe59f4470a051d1b80f51fa0ca3a5048e4a19, cebae292e0c32a228e8f2219c270a7237be24a6a or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: allocate dummy checksums for zoned NODATASUM writes Shin'ichiro reported that when he's running fstests' test-case btrfs/167 on emulated zoned devices, he's seeing the following NULL pointer dereference in 'btrfs_zone_finish_endio()': Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000011: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000088-0x000000000000008f] CPU: 4 PID: 2332440 Comm: kworker/u80:15 Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc2-kts+ #4 Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11SPi-TF, BIOS 3.3 02/21/2020 Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_work_helper [btrfs] RIP: 0010:btrfs_zone_finish_endio.part.0+0x34/0x160 [btrfs] RSP: 0018:ffff88867f107a90 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff893e5534 RDX: 0000000000000011 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000088 RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1081696028 R10: ffff88840b4b0143 R11: ffff88834dfff600 R12: ffff88840b4b0000 R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888530ad5210 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888e3f800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f87223fff38 CR3: 00000007a7c6a002 CR4: 00000000007706f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27 ? die_addr+0x46/0x70 ? exc_general_protection+0x14f/0x250 ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30 ? do_raw_read_unlock+0x44/0x70 ? btrfs_zone_finish_endio.part.0+0x34/0x160 [btrfs] btrfs_finish_one_ordered+0x5d9/0x19a0 [btrfs] ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10 ? do_raw_write_lock+0x90/0x260 ? __pfx_do_raw_write_lock+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_btrfs_finish_one_ordered+0x10/0x10 [btrfs] ? _raw_write_unlock+0x23/0x40 ? btrfs_finish_ordered_zoned+0x5a9/0x850 [btrfs] ? lock_acquire+0x435/0x500 btrfs_work_helper+0x1b1/0xa70 [btrfs] ? __schedule+0x10a8/0x60b0 ? __pfx___might_resched+0x10/0x10 process_one_work+0x862/0x1410 ? __pfx_lock_acquire+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10 ? assign_work+0x16c/0x240 worker_thread+0x5e6/0x1010 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 kthread+0x2c3/0x3a0 ? trace_irq_enable.constprop.0+0xce/0x110 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> Enabling CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT revealed the following assertion to trigger: assertion failed: !list_empty(&ordered->list), in fs/btrfs/zoned.c:1815 This indicates, that we're missing the checksums list on the ordered_extent. As btrfs/167 is doing a NOCOW write this is to be expected. Further analysis with drgn confirmed the assumption: >>> inode = prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[11]['ordered'].inode >>> btrfs_inode = drgn.container_of(inode, "struct btrfs_inode", \ "vfs_inode") >>> print(btrfs_inode.flags) (u32)1 As zoned emulation mode simulates conventional zones on regular devices, we cannot use zone-append for writing. But we're only attaching dummy checksums if we're doing a zone-append write. So for NOCOW zoned data writes on conventional zones, also attach a dummy checksum.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 12, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 14th percentile

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CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

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Exploitation
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Automatable
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Technical impact
partial

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel6.5 and later · before 6.6.36
  • linux linux kernel6.7 and later · before 6.9.7
  • linux linux kernel6.10

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • 6.5affected
    • cbfce4c7fbde23cc8bcba44822a58c728caf6ec9 and later · before 082b3d4e788953a3ff42ecdb70c4210149076285affected · git
    • cbfce4c7fbde23cc8bcba44822a58c728caf6ec9 and later · before 25cfe59f4470a051d1b80f51fa0ca3a5048e4a19affected · git
    • cbfce4c7fbde23cc8bcba44822a58c728caf6ec9 and later · before cebae292e0c32a228e8f2219c270a7237be24a6aaffected · git
    • before 6.5not affected · semver
    • 6.6.36 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
    • 6.9.7 and later · up to and including 6.9.*not affected · semver
    • 6.10 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

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EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.9.7-16.9.7-1

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

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  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-40957Jul 12, 2024 · seg6: fix parameter passing when calling NF_HOOK() in End.DX4 and End.DX6 behaviors
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  • Later →CVE-2024-40963Jul 12, 2024 · mips: bmips: BCM6358: make sure CBR is correctly set
    22Monitor

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux082b3d4e788953a3ff42ecdb70c4210149076285Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux25cfe59f4470a051d1b80f51fa0ca3a5048e4a19Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxcebae292e0c32a228e8f2219c270a7237be24a6aVendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.9.7-1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Chain candidates

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Bug bounty scope

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Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

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