Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-53131: ELSA-2025-20095: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-53131: ELSA-2025-20095: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity

5

CVSS

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

Published

12/04/2024

Created

02/12/2025

Added

02/10/2025

Modified

02/13/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_touch_buffer tracepoint Patch series "nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref bugs on block tracepoints". This series fixes null pointer dereference bugs that occur when using nilfs2 and two block-related tracepoints. This patch (of 2): It has been reported that when using "block:block_touch_buffer" tracepoint, touch_buffer() called from __nilfs_get_folio_block() causes a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when KASAN is enabled. This happens because since the tracepoint was added in touch_buffer(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device structure.In the current implementation, the block_device structure is set after the function returns to the caller. Here, touch_buffer() is used to mark the folio/page that owns the buffer head as accessed, but the common search helper for folio/page used by the caller function was optimized to mark the folio/page as accessed when it was reimplemented a long time ago, eliminating the need to call touch_buffer() here in the first place. So this solves the issue by eliminating the touch_buffer() call itself.

Solution(s)

• oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-53131
• CVE - 2024-53131
• ELSA-2025-20095
• ELSA-2025-20100