CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-58095

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a read-only check was added before calling txBeginAnon in extAlloc and extRecord in the JFS filesystem. This prevents modification attempts on a read-only mounted filesystem, avoiding potential errors or crashes.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential system crashes or errors during operations on a read-only mounted filesystem, which could lead to system instability.

Recommendation

Apply a Linux kernel update that includes this fix to ensure system stability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: add check read-only before txBeginAnon() call Added a read-only check before calling `txBeginAnon` in `extAlloc` and `extRecord`. This prevents modification attempts on a read-only mounted filesystem, avoiding potential errors or crashes. Call trace: txBeginAnon+0xac/0x154 extAlloc+0xe8/0xdec fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c:78 jfs_get_block+0x340/0xb98 fs/jfs/inode.c:248 __block_write_begin_int+0x580/0x166c fs/buffer.c:2128 __block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2177 [inline] block_write_begin+0x98/0x11c fs/buffer.c:2236 jfs_write_begin+0x44/0x88 fs/jfs/inode.c:299

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