CVE-2024-56548 — Out-of-bounds Write in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV5.5OSV4.7
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 27
Latest updateMar 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: don't query the device logical block size multiple times
Devices block sizes may change. One of these cases is a loop device by
using ioctl LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE.
While this may cause other issues like IO being rejected, in the case of
hfsplus, it will allocate a block by using that size and potentially write
out-of-bounds when hfsplus_read_wrapper calls hfsplus_submit_bio and the
latter function reads a different io_s…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages7 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux6596528e391ad978a6a120142cba97a1d7324cb6 — baccb5e12577b7a9eff54ffba301fdaa0f3ee5a8+10
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
44OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle vulnerabilities↗2026-03-20