CVE-2024-50143 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad

Check for overflow when computing alen in udf_current_aext to mitigate later uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad KMSAN bug[1]. After applying the patch reproducer did not trigger any issue[2].

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8901c4560b7ab5c2f9df [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10242227980000

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fc0d8660e391dcd8dde23c44d702be1f6846c61 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72e445df65a0aa9066c6fe2b8736ba2fcca6dac7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ac49babc952f48d82676979b20885e480e69be8 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e52e0b92ed31dc62afbda15c243dcee0bb5bb58d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/264db9d666ad9a35075cc9ed9ec09d021580fbb1