CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-49900

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel related to improper access to an uninitialized value in the lzo1x_1_do_compress function. The issue concerns the ea_buf variable, which was not properly initialized, potentially leading to unpredictable system behavior.

Risk Assessment

Improper memory management may lead to system crashes or exposure of sensitive data, posing a significant security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to eliminate this vulnerability and to use memset to initialize the ea_buf variable in the ea_get() function.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer syzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178 ... Uninit was stored to memory at: ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline] ... Local variable ea_buf created at: __jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662 __jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934 ===================================================== The reason is ea_buf->new_ea is not initialized properly. Fix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning in ea_get().

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