CVE-2024-43845

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Fix bogus checksum computation in udf_rename() Syzbot reports uninitialized memory access in udf_rename() when updating checksum of '..' directory entry of a moved directory. This is indeed true as we pass on-stack diriter.fi to the udf_update_tag() and because that has only struct fileIdentDesc included in it and not the impUse or name fields, the checksumming function is going to checksum random stack contents beyond the end of the structure. This is actually harmless because the following udf_fiiter_write_fi() will recompute the checksum from on-disk buffers where everything is properly included. So all that is needed is just removing the bogus calculation.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2ead240c31e8d158713beca9d0681a6e6a53ab

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c996b570305e7a6910c2ce4cdcd4c22757ffe241

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40d7b3ed52449d36143bab8d3e70926aa61a60f4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27ab33854873e6fb958cb074681a0107cc2ecc4c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-17

Updated: 2024-08-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium