CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-35936

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the btrfs_relocate_sys_chunks() function does not handle a chunk tree lookup error. This case can only occur due to corruption, as the search should not return an invalid chunk item under normal conditions.

Risk Assessment

Corruption of a btrfs filesystem can trigger an unhandled error in the kernel, potentially causing a system hang or crash.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix for this issue.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: handle chunk tree lookup error in btrfs_relocate_sys_chunks() The unhandled case in btrfs_relocate_sys_chunks() loop is a corruption, as it could be caused only by two impossible conditions: - at first the search key is set up to look for a chunk tree item, with offset -1, this is an inexact search and the key->offset will contain the correct offset upon a successful search, a valid chunk tree item cannot have an offset -1 - after first successful search, the found_key corresponds to a chunk item, the offset is decremented by 1 before the next loop, it's impossible to find a chunk item there due to alignment and size constraints

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