CVE-2024-43859f2fs: fix to truncate preallocated blocks in f2fs_file_open()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.24%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 85% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to truncate preallocated blocks in f2fs_file_open() chenyuwen reports a f2fs bug as below: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000011 fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx+0x78/0x1e8 f2fs_grab_read_bio+0x78/0x208 f2fs_submit_page_read+0x44/0x154 f2fs_get_read_data_page+0x288/0x5f4 f2fs_get_lock_data_page+0x60/0x190 truncate_partial_data_page+0x108/0x4fc f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x344/0x5f0 f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x6c/0x134 f2fs_truncate+0xd8/0x200 f2fs_iget+0x20c/0x5ac do_garbage_collect+0x5d0/0xf6c f2fs_gc+0x22c/0x6a4 f2fs_disable_checkpoint+0xc8/0x310 f2fs_fill_super+0x14bc/0x1764 mount_bdev+0x1b4/0x21c f2fs_mount+0x20/0x30 legacy_get_tree+0x50/0xbc vfs_get_tree+0x5c/0x1b0 do_new_mount+0x298/0x4cc path_mount+0x33c/0x5fc __arm64_sys_mount+0xcc/0x15c invoke_syscall+0x60/0x150 el0_svc_common+0xb8/0xf8 do_el0_svc+0x28/0xa0 el0_svc+0x24/0x84 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec It is because inode.i_crypt_info is not initialized during below path: - mount - f2fs_fill_super - f2fs_disable_checkpoint - f2fs_gc - f2fs_iget - f2fs_truncate So, let's relocate truncation of preallocated blocks to f2fs_file_open(), after fscrypt_file_open().
Timeline
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By Linux
Published
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected d4dd19ec1ea0cf6532d65709325c42b1398614a8 – < 5f04969136db674f133781626e0b692c5f2bf2f0
- affected d4dd19ec1ea0cf6532d65709325c42b1398614a8 – < f44a25a8bfe0c15d33244539696cd9119cf44d18
- affected d4dd19ec1ea0cf6532d65709325c42b1398614a8 – < 3ba0ae885215b325605ff7ebf6de12ac2adf204d
- affected d4dd19ec1ea0cf6532d65709325c42b1398614a8 – < 298b1e4182d657c3e388adcc29477904e9600ed5
- affected 5.17
- unaffected < 5.17
- unaffected 6.1.109 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.44 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.10.3 – ≤ 6.10.*
- unaffected 6.11 – ≤ *
References
References5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f04969136db674f133781626e0b692c5f2bf2f0 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f44a25a8bfe0c15d33244539696cd9119cf44d18 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ba0ae885215b325605ff7ebf6de12ac2adf204d (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/298b1e4182d657c3e388adcc29477904e9600ed5 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-40509 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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