CVE-2024-50088 (GCVE-0-2024-50088)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-29 00:50
Modified
2026-05-23 15:54
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free in add_inode_ref() The add_inode_ref() function does not initialize the "name" struct when it is declared. If any of the following calls to "read_one_inode() returns NULL, dir = read_one_inode(root, parent_objectid); if (!dir) { ret = -ENOENT; goto out; } inode = read_one_inode(root, inode_objectid); if (!inode) { ret = -EIO; goto out; } then "name.name" would be freed on "out" before being initialized. out: ... kfree(name.name); This issue was reported by Coverity with CID 1526744.
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Linux Linux Version: 1cf474cd474bc5d3ef63086ffd009a87a5b7bb2e
Version: e43eec81c5167b655b72c781b0e75e62a05e415e
Version: e43eec81c5167b655b72c781b0e75e62a05e415e
Version: e43eec81c5167b655b72c781b0e75e62a05e415e
Version: 6.1.57   ≤
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