{"id":"CVE-2024-44947","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-44947","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T11:55:26.861Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setting uptodate fuse_notify_store(), unlike fuse_do_readpage(), does not enable page zeroing (because it can be used to change partial…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setting uptodate\n\nfuse_notify_store(), unlike fuse_do_readpage(), does not enable page\nzeroing (because it can be used to change partial page contents).\n\nSo fuse_notify_store() must be more careful to fully initialize page\ncontents (including parts of the page that are beyond end-of-file)\nbefore marking the page uptodate.\n\nThe current code can leave beyond-EOF page contents uninitialized, which\nmakes these uninitialized page contents visible to userspace via mmap().\n\nThis is an information leak, but only affects systems which do not\nenable init-on-alloc (via CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y or the\ncorresponding kernel command line parameter).","published":"2024-09-02T18:15:37.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:53:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-665"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00886,"percentile":0.5908,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.89%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18a067240817bee8a9360539af5d79a4bf5398a5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33168db352c7b56ae18aa55c2cae1a1c5905d30e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c0da3d163eb32f1f91891efaade027fa9b245b9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4690e2171f651e2b415e3941ce17f2f7b813aff6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49934861514d36d0995be8e81bb3312a499d8d9a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/831433527773e665bdb635ab5783d0b95d1246f4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c78303eafbf85a728dd84d1750e89240c677dd9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac42e0f0eb66af966015ee33fd355bc6f5d80cd6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/42451729","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44947","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."}