CVE-2024-26848

NameCVE-2024-26848
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix endless loop in directory parsing If a directory has a block with only ".__afsXXXX" files in it (from uncompleted silly-rename), these .__afsXXXX files are skipped but without advancing the file position in the dir_context. This leads to afs_dir_iterate() repeating the block again and again. Fix this by making the code that skips the .__afsXXXX file also manually advance the file position. The symptoms are a soft lookup: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 52s! [check:5737] ... RIP: 0010:afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd ... ? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1a6/0x213 ... ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 ? afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd afs_dir_iterate+0x10a/0x148 afs_readdir+0x30/0x4a iterate_dir+0x93/0xd3 __do_sys_getdents64+0x6b/0xd4 This is almost certainly the actual fix for: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218496
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3842-1, DSA-5681-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1fixed
bullseye (security)5.10.226-1fixed
bookworm6.1.115-1fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.119-1fixed
sid, trixie6.11.10-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebuster(not affected)
linuxsourcebullseye5.10.216-1DSA-5681-1
linuxsourcebookworm6.1.85-1
linuxsource(unstable)6.7.12-1
linux-5.10sourcebuster5.10.216-1~deb10u1DLA-3842-1

Notes

[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/5f7a07646655fb4108da527565dcdc80124b14c4 (6.8-rc7)

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