CVE-2024-49958
CVE-2024-49958CVE-2024-49958
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: reserve space for inline xattr before attaching reflink tree
One of our customers reported a crash and a corrupted ocfs2 filesystem.
The crash was due to the detection of corruption. Upon troubleshooting,
the fsck -fn output showed the below corruption
[EXTENT_LIST_FREE] Extent list in owner 33080590 claims 230 as the next free chain record,
but fsck believes the largest valid value is 227. Clamp the next record value? n
The stat output from the debugfs.ocfs2 showed the following corruption
where the "Next Free Rec:" had overshot the "Count:" in the root metadata
block.
Inode: 33080590 Mode: 0640 Generation: 2619713622 (0x9c25a856)
FS Generation: 904309833 (0x35e6ac49)
CRC32: 00000000 ECC: 0000
Type: Regular Attr: 0x0 Flags: Valid
Dynamic Features: (0x16) HasXattr InlineXattr Refcounted
Extended Attributes Block: 0 Extended Attributes Inline Size
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |