CVE-2024-43859

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to truncate preallocated blocks in f2fsfileopen chenyuwen reports a f2fs bug as below: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000011 fscryptsetbiocryptctx+0x78/0x1e8...

CVE-2024-43859

CVE-2024-43859 affects the Linux kernel with the f2fs filesystem. The root cause is an uninitialized inode.i_crypt_info during mount paths that involve f2fs_gc/truncate, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in fscrypt-related code when handling preallocated blocks. The documented mitigation is t...

CVE-2024-43859: NULL Pointer Dereference

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to truncate preallocated blocks in f2fsfileopen chenyuwen reports a f2fs bug as below: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000011 fscryptsetbiocryptctx+0x78/0x1e8...