Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49889: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49889: kernel security update

Severity

7

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

10/21/2024

Created

01/16/2025

Added

01/15/2025

Modified

01/30/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid use-after-free in ext4_ext_show_leaf() In ext4_find_extent(), path may be freed by error or be reallocated, so using a previously saved *ppath may have been freed and thus may trigger use-after-free, as follows: ext4_split_extent path = *ppath; ext4_split_extent_at(ppath) path = ext4_find_extent(ppath) ext4_split_extent_at(ppath) // ext4_find_extent fails to free path // but zeroout succeeds ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, path) eh = path[depth].p_hdr // path use-after-free !!! Similar to ext4_split_extent_at(), we use *ppath directly as an input to ext4_ext_show_leaf(). Fix a spelling error by the way. Same problem in ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents(). Since 'path' is only used in ext4_ext_show_leaf(), remove 'path' and use *ppath directly. This issue is triggered only when EXT_DEBUG is defined and therefore does not affect functionality.

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-49889
• CVE - 2024-49889
• EulerOS-SA-2025-1057