CVE-2024-50247 (GCVE-0-2024-50247)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-09 10:14
Modified
2026-08-05 11:42
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Check if more than chunk-size bytes are written A incorrectly formatted chunk may decompress into more than LZNT_CHUNK_SIZE bytes and a index out of bounds will occur in s_max_off.
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Linux Linux Version: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e
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