{"id":"CVE-2024-44941","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-44941","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T11:54:43.873Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to cover read extent cache access with lock syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sanity_check_extent_cache+0x370/0x410…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to cover read extent cache access with lock\n\nsyzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sanity_check_extent_cache+0x370/0x410 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:46\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff8880739ab220 by task syz-executor200/5097\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 5097 Comm: syz-executor200 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]\n print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488\n kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601\n sanity_check_extent_cache+0x370/0x410 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:46\n do_read_inode fs/f2fs/inode.c:509 [inline]\n f2fs_iget+0x33e1/0x46e0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:560\n f2fs_nfs_get_inode+0x74/0x100 fs/f2fs/super.c:3237\n generic_fh_to_dentry+0x9f/0xf0 fs/libfs.c:1413\n exportfs_decode_fh_raw+0x152/0x5f0 fs/exportfs/expfs.c:444\n exportfs_decode_fh+0x3c/0x80 fs/exportfs/expfs.c:584\n do_handle_to_path fs/fhandle.c:155 [inline]\n handle_to_path fs/fhandle.c:210 [inline]\n do_handle_open+0x495/0x650 fs/fhandle.c:226\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf5/0x240 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nWe missed to cover sanity_check_extent_cache() w/ extent cache lock,\nso, below race case may happen, result in use after free issue.\n\n- f2fs_iget\n - do_read_inode\n  - f2fs_init_read_extent_tree\n  : add largest extent entry in to cache\n\t\t\t\t\t- shrink\n\t\t\t\t\t - f2fs_shrink_read_extent_tree\n\t\t\t\t\t  - __shrink_extent_tree\n\t\t\t\t\t   - __detach_extent_node\n\t\t\t\t\t   : drop largest extent entry\n  - sanity_check_extent_cache\n  : access et->largest w/o lock\n\nlet's refactor sanity_check_extent_cache() to avoid extent cache access\nand call it before f2fs_init_read_extent_tree() to fix this issue.","published":"2024-08-26T12:15:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T11:20:02.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00211,"percentile":0.11256,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/263df78166d3a9609b97d28c34029bd01874cbb8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/323ef20b5558b9d9fd10c1224327af6f11a8177d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7409b05a64f212735f0d33f5f1602051a886eab","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44941","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}