Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-50143 - Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: fix uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad Check for overflow when computing alen in udf_current_aext to mitigate later uninit-value use in udf_get_fileshortad KMSAN bug[1]. After applying the patch reproducer did not trigger any issue[2]. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8901c4560b7ab5c2f9df [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10242227980000
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fc0d8660e391dcd8dde23c44d702be1f6846c61
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72e445df65a0aa9066c6fe2b8736ba2fcca6dac7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ac49babc952f48d82676979b20885e480e69be8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e52e0b92ed31dc62afbda15c243dcee0bb5bb58d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/264db9d666ad9a35075cc9ed9ec09d021580fbb1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5eb76fb98b3335aa5cca6a7db2e659561c79c32b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/417bd613bdbe791549f7687bb1b9b8012ff111c2