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CVE-2024-49887

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2024-10-21
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 6.10.14 / 6.11.3 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below: F2FS-fs (loop0): inject no free segment in get_new_segment of __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167 F2FS-fs (loop0): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 7 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748! CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5109 Comm: syz-executor304 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00363-g89f5e14d05b4 #0 RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline] RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836 Call Trace: __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167 f2fs_allocate_new_section fs/f2fs/segment.c:3181 [inline] f2fs_allocate_pinning_section+0xfa/0x4e0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3195 f2fs_expand_inode_data+0x5d6/0xbb0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1799 f2fs_fallocate+0x448/0x960 fs/f2fs/file.c:1903 vfs_fallocate+0x553/0x6c0 fs/open.c:334 do_vfs_ioctl+0x2592/0x2e50 fs/ioctl.c:886 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:905 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0x81/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline] RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836 The root cause is when we inject no free segment fault into f2fs, we should not panic system, fix it.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 6.9, < 6.10.14>= 6.11, < 6.11.3

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 6.10.14 / 6.11.3 or later
Fixed in 6.10.146.11.3
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Kernel 6.10.14+ or 6.11.3+ (depending on which branch is in use)

  1. 1. Identify the current kernel version using `uname -r`
  2. 2. If running kernel 6.9.x through 6.10.x, upgrade to kernel version 6.10.14 or later
  3. 3. If running kernel 6.11.x, upgrade to kernel version 6.11.3 or later
  4. 4. On Debian/Ubuntu: `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade`
  5. 5. On RHEL/CentOS: `sudo yum update`
  6. 6. Reboot the system to load the new kernel
  7. 7. Verify the fix is applied by running `uname -r` and confirming the version includes the fix
Caveat Kernel upgrades may require system reboot and could introduce regressions in other drivers or subsystems; test in staging environment first

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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