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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
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CVE-2024-49965

Disclosure Date: October 21, 2024 •
CVE-2024-49965 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks

Patch series “Misc fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks”, v5.

This series contains 2 fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks(). The first patch fix
the issue reported by syzbot, which detects bad unlock balance in
ocfs2_read_blocks(). The second patch fixes an issue reported by Heming
Zhao when reviewing above fix.

This patch (of 2):

There was a lock release before exiting, so remove the unreasonable unlock.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux 5245f109b4af
Linux 9753bcb17b36
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
Technical Analysis