CVE-2024-44947 — Improper Initialization in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 2
Latest updateJan 9
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 unini…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6