CVE-2024-56774
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: add a sanity check for btrfs root in btrfs_search_slot() Syzbot reports a null-ptr-deref in btrfs_search_slot().
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: add a sanity check for btrfs root in btrfs_search_slot() Syzbot reports a null-ptr-deref in btrfs_search_slot(). The reproducer is using rescue=ibadroots, and the extent tree root is corrupted thus the extent tree is NULL. When scrub tries to search the extent tree to gather the needed extent info, btrfs_search_slot() doesn't check if the target root is NULL or not, resulting the null-ptr-deref. Add sanity check for btrfs root before using it in btrfs_search_slot().
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.21% probability · 11th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ed51857a50f530ac7a1482e069dfbd1298558d4Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/757171d1369b3b47f36932d40a05a0715496dcabPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93992c3d9629b02dccf6849238559d5c24f2decePatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71d114ef68c95da5a82ec85a721ab31f5bd905bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db66fb87c21e8ae724886e6a464dcbac562a64c6Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.