vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-44947

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 2, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 4, 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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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