Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49983: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49983: kernel security update

Severity

4

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

10/21/2024

Created

02/12/2025

Added

02/11/2025

Modified

02/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: drop ppath from ext4_ext_replay_update_ex() to avoid double-free When calling ext4_force_split_extent_at() in ext4_ext_replay_update_ex(), the 'ppath' is updated but it is the 'path' that is freed, thus potentially triggering a double-free in the following process: ext4_ext_replay_update_ex ppath = path ext4_force_split_extent_at(&ppath) ext4_split_extent_at ext4_ext_insert_extent ext4_ext_create_new_leaf ext4_ext_grow_indepth ext4_find_extent if (depth > path[0].p_maxdepth) kfree(path) ---> path First freed *orig_path = path = NULL---> null ppath kfree(path) ---> path double-free !!! So drop the unnecessary ppath and use path directly to avoid this problem. And use ext4_find_extent() directly to update path, avoiding unnecessary memory allocation and freeing. Also, propagate the error returned by ext4_find_extent() instead of using strange error codes.

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-bpftool
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-49983
• CVE - 2024-49983
• EulerOS-SA-2025-1192