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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0028 19.4 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux 6545b246a2c815a8fcd07d58240effb6ec3481b1 – — Linux 2.6.29 – 5.4.291
TIMELINE Feb 19 Reserved by Linux May 1 Published (CNA: Linux) Oct 15 ENRICHED — CVE-2024-26982 (Linux). Received CVSS 7.1 and CPE data from NVD.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero Syskiller has produced an out of bounds access in fill_meta_index(). That out of bounds access is ultimately caused because the inode has an inode number with the invalid value of zero, which was not checked. The reason this causes the out of bounds access is due to following sequence of events: 1. Fill_meta_index() is called to allocate (via empty_meta_index()) and fill a metadata index. It however suffers a data read error and aborts, invalidating the newly returned empty metadata index. It does this by setting the inode number of the index to zero, which means unused (zero is not a valid inode number). 2. When fill_meta_index() is subsequently called again on another read operation, locate_meta_index() returns the previous index because it matches the inode number of 0. Because this index has been returned it is expected to have been filled, and because it hasn't been, an out of bounds access is performed. This patch adds a sanity check which checks that the inode number is not zero when the inode is created and returns -EINVAL if it is. [phillip@squashfs.org.uk: whitespace fix]
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| May 1, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| October 15, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2024-26982 (Linux). Received CVSS 7.1 and CPE data from NVD. |
Authoritative record: CVE-2024-26982 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
Weaknesses: CWE-125
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