CVE-2024-42304 Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLS-7758231
- published 21 Aug 2024
- disclosed 17 Aug 2024
Introduced: 17 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-42304 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: make sure the first directory block is not a hole
The syzbot constructs a directory that has no dirblock but is non-inline, i.e. the first directory block is a hole. And no errors are reported when creating files in this directory in the following flow.
ext4_mknod
...
ext4_add_entry
// Read block 0
ext4_read_dirblock(dir, block, DIRENT)
bh = ext4_bread(NULL, inode, block, 0)
if (!bh && (type == INDEX || type == DIRENT_HTREE))
// The first directory block is a hole
// But type == DIRENT, so no error is reported.
After that, we get a directory block without '.' and '..' but with a valid dentry. This may cause some code that relies on dot or dotdot (such as make_indexed_dir()) to crash.
Therefore when ext4_read_dirblock() finds that the first directory block is a hole report that the filesystem is corrupted and return an error to avoid loading corrupted data from disk causing something bad.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42304
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/299bc6ffa57e04e74c6cce866d6c0741fb4897a1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b609753cbbd38f8c0affd4956c0af178348523ac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3893d9de8ee153baac56d127d844103488133b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9ca51596bbfd0f9c386dd1c613c394c78d9e5e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9771e3d8365ae1dd5e8846a204cb9af14e3e656a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d81d7e347d1f1f48a5634607d39eb90c161c8afe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de2a011a13a46468a6e8259db58b1b62071fe136
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e02f9941e8c011aa3eafa799def6a134ce06bcfa