CVE-2024-49900EPSS p19.1%
CVE-2024-49900CVE-2024-49900
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer
syzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value:
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178
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Uninit was stored to memory at:
ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline]
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Local variable ea_buf created at:
__jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662
__jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934
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The reason is ea_buf->new_ea is not initialized properly.
Fix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning
in ea_get().
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.1 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.28% probability of exploitation · percentile 19.1% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-15 |