Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting kernel-rt-selftests-internal package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTSELFTESTSINTERNAL-7280355
  • published20 Jun 2024
  • disclosed19 Jun 2024

Introduced: 19 Jun 2024

CVE-2021-47579  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-rt-selftests-internal.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-selftests-internal package and not the kernel-rt-selftests-internal package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovl: fix warning in ovl_create_real()

Syzbot triggered the following warning in ovl_workdir_create() -> ovl_create_real():

if (!err && WARN_ON(!newdentry->d_inode)) {

The reason is that the cgroup2 filesystem returns from mkdir without instantiating the new dentry.

Weird filesystems such as this will be rejected by overlayfs at a later stage during setup, but to prevent such a warning, call ovl_mkdir_real() directly from ovl_workdir_create() and reject this case early.

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