ext4: avoid OOB when system.data xattr changes underneath the filesystem

Affected versions

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

• linux linux kernel3.8 and later · before 5.10.227
• linux linux kernel5.11 and later · before 5.15.168
• linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 6.1.113
• linux linux kernel6.2 and later · before 6.6.54
• linux linux kernel6.7 and later · before 6.10.13
• linux linux kernel6.11 and later · before 6.11.2

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

  • 3.8affected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before 5b076d37e8d99918e9294bd6b35a8bbb436819b0affected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before 8adf0eb4e361a9e060d54f4bd0ac9c5d85277d20affected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before 7fc22c3b3ffc0e952f5e0062dd11aa6ae76affbaaffected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before be2e9b111e2790962cc66a177869b4e9717b4e29affected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before ea32883e4a03ed575a2eb7a66542022312bde477affected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before 2a6579ef5f2576a940125729f7409cc182f1c8dfaffected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before 371d0bacecd529f887ea2547333d9173e7bcdc0aaffected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before ccb8c18076e2e630fea23fbec583cdad61787fc5affected · git
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 and later · before c6b72f5d82b1017bad80f9ebf502832fc321d796affected · git

Package-level exposure

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

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2022-0847A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe KEV
  89Now
• CVE-2021-22555Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACEKEV
  85Now
• CVE-2016-5195Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 2.x through 4.x before 4.8.3 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect haKEV
  83Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2024-47697Oct 21, 2024 · drivers: media: dvb-frontends/rtl2830: fix an out-of-bounds write error
  31Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2024-47699Oct 21, 2024 · nilfs2: fix potential null-ptr-deref in nilfs_btree_insert()
  22Monitor
• Later →CVE-2024-47702Oct 21, 2024 · bpf: Fail verification for sign-extension of packet data/data_end/data_meta
  22Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1free(dev->buf);2/* ... another thread is still running ... */3process(dev->buf);

1lock(&dev->lock);2free(dev->buf);3dev->buf = NULL;4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.