vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-44947): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N) | Sep 2, 2024 | Nov 4, 2024 | Jan 28, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setting uptodate
fuse_notify_store(), unlike fuse_do_readpage(), does not enable page
zeroing (because it can be used to change partial page contents).
So fuse_notify_store() must be more careful to fully initialize page
contents (including parts of the page that are beyond end-of-file)
before marking the page uptodate.
The current code can leave beyond-EOF page contents uninitialized, which
makes these uninitialized page contents visible to userspace via mmap().
This is an information leak, but only affects systems which do not
enable init-on-alloc (via CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y or the
corresponding kernel command line parameter).
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-44947
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-44947
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- UBUNTU-USN-7088-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7088-3
- UBUNTU-USN-7088-4
- UBUNTU-USN-7088-5
- UBUNTU-USN-7100-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7100-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7119-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7123-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7144-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7154-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7154-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7155-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7156-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7183-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7184-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7185-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7185-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7194-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7196-1

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