Lucene search

K
prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2024-26601
HistoryFeb 26, 2024 - 4:27 p.m.

Spoofing

2024-02-2616:27:00
PRIOn knowledge base
www.prio-n.com
10
linux
kernel
vulnerability
resolved
ext4
block freeing

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: regenerate buddy after block freeing failed if under fc replay

This mostly reverts commit 6bd97bf273bd (“ext4: remove redundant
mb_regenerate_buddy()”) and reintroduces mb_regenerate_buddy(). Based on
code in mb_free_blocks(), fast commit replay can end up marking as free
blocks that are already marked as such. This causes corruption of the
buddy bitmap so we need to regenerate it in that case.

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%