CVE-2024-50087 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free on read_alloc_one_name() error

The function read_alloc_one_name() does not initialize the name field of the passed fscrypt_str struct if kmalloc fails to allocate the corresponding buffer. Thus it is not guaranteed that fscrypt_str.name is initialized when freeing it.

This is a follow-up to the linked patch that fixes the remaining instances of the bug introduced by commit e43eec81c516 (trfs: use struct qstr instead of name and namelen pairs).

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b37de9491f140a0ff125c27dd1050185c3accbc1 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fc7c47b9ba0cf2d192f2117a64b24881b0b577f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ec28de5e476913ae51f909660b4447eddb28838 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ab5e243c2266c841e0f6904fad1514b18eaf510

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5