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CVE-2024-46734: btrfs: fix race between direct IO write and fsync when using same fd

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 18/100)

  • 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: 0.18% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 01681aa609b5f110502f56c4e3b2938efcf4a5bc, 5.15.167, 6.1.110.
  • Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 7.8, NVD 4.7.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 01681aa609b5f110502f56c4e3b2938efcf4a5bc, 5.15.167, 6.1.110 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: fix race between direct IO write and fsync when using same fd If we have 2 threads that are using the same file descriptor and one of them is doing direct IO writes while the other is doing fsync, we have a race where we can end up either: 1) Attempt a fsync without holding the inode's lock, triggering an assertion failures when assertions are enabled; 2) Do an invalid memory access from the fsync task because the file private points to memory allocated on stack by the direct IO task and it may be used by the fsync task after the stack was destroyed. The race happens like this: 1) A user space program opens a file descriptor with O_DIRECT; 2) The program spawns 2 threads using libpthread for example; 3) One of the threads uses the file descriptor to do direct IO writes, while the other calls fsync using the same file descriptor. 4) Call task A the thread doing direct IO writes and task B the thread doing fsyncs; 5) Task A does a direct IO write, and at btrfs_direct_write() sets the file's private to an on stack allocated private with the member 'fsync_skip_inode_lock' set to true; 6) Task B enters btrfs_sync_file() and sees that there's a private structure associated to the file which has 'fsync_skip_inode_lock' set to true, so it skips locking the inode's VFS lock; 7) Task A completes the direct IO write, and resets the file's private to NULL since it had no prior private and our private was stack allocated. Then it unlocks the inode's VFS lock; 8) Task B enters btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging(), then the assertion that checks the inode's VFS lock is held fails, since task B never locked it and task A has already unlocked it. The stack trace produced is the following: assertion failed: inode_is_locked(&inode->vfs_inode), in fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c:983 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c:983! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 9 PID: 5072 Comm: worker Tainted: G U OE 6.10.5-1-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 69f48d427608e1c09e60ea24c6c55e2ca1b049e8 Hardware name: Acer Predator PH315-52/Covini_CFS, BIOS V1.12 07/28/2020 RIP: 0010:btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs] Code: 50 d6 86 c0 e8 (...) RSP: 0018:ffff9e4a03dcfc78 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000054 RBX: ffff9078a9868e98 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff907dce4a7800 RDI: ffff907dce4a7800 RBP: ffff907805518800 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff9e4a03dcfb38 R10: ffff9e4a03dcfb30 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff907684ae7800 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff90774646b600 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f04b96006c0(0000) GS:ffff907dce480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f32acbfc000 CR3: 00000001fd4fa005 CR4: 00000000003726f0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body.cold+0x14/0x24 ? die+0x2e/0x50 ? do_trap+0xca/0x110 ? do_error_trap+0x6a/0x90 ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a] ? exc_invalid_op+0x50/0x70 ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a] ? btrfs_get_ordered_extents_for_logging.cold+0x1f/0x42 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a] btrfs_sync_file+0x21a/0x4d0 [btrfs bb26272d49b4cdc847cf3f7faadd459b62caee9a] ? __seccomp_filter+0x31d/0x4f0 __x64_sys_fdatasync+0x4f/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160 ? do_futex+0xcb/0x190 ? __x64_sys_futex+0x10e/0x1d0 ? switch_fpu_return+0x4f/0xd0 ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x72/0x220 ? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160 ? syscall_exit_to_user_mod ---truncated---

MediumCVSS 4.7 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 18, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 8th percentile

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Action score

18

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
18 / 40 · 4.7 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
4.7
CNA · Linux
7.8
3.1 point gap

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

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • linux linux kernel5.15.165 and later · before 5.15.167
  • linux linux kernel6.1.105 and later · before 6.1.110
  • linux linux kernel6.6.46 and later · before 6.6.51
  • linux linux kernel6.10.5 and later · before 6.10.10
  • linux linux kernel6.11

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

    • 4e17707035a65f6e5b2a4d987a308cf8ed8c5ad1 and later · before d116a0b0e02f395cedfb8c725bd67480aa7c428caffected · git
    • 6cae8d04d8b3d1ecfadcaa989e673f6f73349ed5 and later · before cd3087582e4fa36e89be4e6f859e75a4400292b4affected · git
    • 0a108bde616a7017653385b5a12111015051a294 and later · before 7b5595f33c3c273613b590892a578d78186bb400affected · git
    • 3831170f740685fddc8f6aa57a83ad0fef4711bf and later · before 01681aa609b5f110502f56c4e3b2938efcf4a5bcaffected · git
    • 939b656bc8ab203fdbde26ccac22bcb7f0985be5 and later · before cd9253c23aedd61eb5ff11f37a36247cd46faf86affected · git
    • 5.15.165 and later · before 5.15.167affected · semver
    • 6.1.105 and later · before 6.1.110affected · semver
    • 6.6.46 and later · before 6.6.51affected · semver
    • 6.10.5 and later · before 6.10.10affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 6.1.112-16.1.112-1
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.10.11-16.10.11-1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-46732Sep 18, 2024 · drm/amd/display: Assign linear_pitch_alignment even for VM
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-46733Sep 18, 2024 · btrfs: fix qgroup reserve leaks in cow_file_range
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-46735Sep 18, 2024 · ublk_drv: fix NULL pointer dereference in ublk_ctrl_start_recovery()
    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux01681aa609b5f110502f56c4e3b2938efcf4a5bcVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5.15.167Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6.1.110Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6.10.10Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux6.6.51Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux7b5595f33c3c273613b590892a578d78186bb400Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxcd3087582e4fa36e89be4e6f859e75a4400292b4Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxcd9253c23aedd61eb5ff11f37a36247cd46faf86Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxd116a0b0e02f395cedfb8c725bd67480aa7c428cVendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.1.112-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

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

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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