{"id":"CVE-2024-49900","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-49900","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:41:08.607Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer syzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN:…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer\n\nsyzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value:\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178\n\n...\n\nUninit was stored to memory at:\n ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline]\n\n...\n\nLocal variable ea_buf created at:\n __jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662\n __jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934\n\n=====================================================\n\nThe reason is ea_buf->new_ea is not initialized properly.\n\nFix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning\nin ea_get().","published":"2024-10-21T18:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T01:19:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-908"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0028,"percentile":0.2031,"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 (0.28%). 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/2b59ffad47db1c46af25ccad157bb3b25147c35c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6041536d18c5f51a84bc37cd568cbab61870031e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b24d41d47a6805c45378debf8bd115675d41da8","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c244d5b48284a770d96ff703df2dfeadf804a73","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ad8b531de79c348bcb8133e7f5e827b884226af","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b1dcf25c26d42e4a68c4725ce52a0543c7878cc","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c076b3746224982eebdba5c9e4b1467e146c0d64","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7444f91a9f93eaa48827087ed0f3381c194181d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dac398ed272a378d2f42ac68ae408333a51baf52","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49900","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."}