CVE-2024-57924 — Reachable Assertion in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.9
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 19
Latest updateJul 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: relax assertions on failure to encode file handles
Encoding file handles is usually performed by a filesystem >encode_fh()
method that may fail for various reasons.
The legacy users of exportfs_encode_fh(), namely, nfsd and
name_to_handle_at(2) syscall are ready to cope with the possibility
of failure to encode a file handle.
There are a few other users of exportfs_encode_{fh,fid}() that
currently have a WARN_ON() assert…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxbe77196b809cdce8603a5aadd5e3cfabd3cbef96 — 73697928c806fe4689939722184a86fc1c1957b4+4