| Name | CVE-2024-42304 |
| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: make sure the first directory block is not a hole The syzbot constructs a directory that has no dirblock but is non-inline, i.e. the first directory block is a hole. And no errors are reported when creating files in this directory in the following flow. ext4_mknod ... ext4_add_entry // Read block 0 ext4_read_dirblock(dir, block, DIRENT) bh = ext4_bread(NULL, inode, block, 0) if (!bh && (type == INDEX || type == DIRENT_HTREE)) // The first directory block is a hole // But type == DIRENT, so no error is reported. After that, we get a directory block without '.' and '..' but with a valid dentry. This may cause some code that relies on dot or dotdot (such as make_indexed_dir()) to crash. Therefore when ext4_read_dirblock() finds that the first directory block is a hole report that the filesystem is corrupted and return an error to avoid loading corrupted data from disk causing something bad. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3912-1, ELA-1219-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | vulnerable | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.19.316-1 | vulnerable | |
| bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | vulnerable | |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.226-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.106-3 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.112-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 6.11.5-1 | fixed | |
| linux-5.10 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.10.226-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 5.10.226-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (lts) | 5.10.226-1~deb10u1 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 5.10.218-1~deb10u1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| linux | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| linux | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| linux | source | bullseye | 5.10.226-1 | DLA-3912-1 | ||
| linux | source | bookworm | 6.1.106-1 | |||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 6.10.3-1 | |||
| linux-5.10 | source | jessie | 5.10.226-1~deb8u1 | ELA-1219-1 | ||
| linux-5.10 | source | stretch | 5.10.226-1~deb9u1 | ELA-1219-1 | ||
| linux-5.10 | source | buster | 5.10.226-1~deb10u1 | ELA-1219-1 |
https://git.kernel.org/linus/f9ca51596bbfd0f9c386dd1c613c394c78d9e5e6 (6.11-rc1)