CVE-2024-49960 ext4: fix timer use-after-free on failed mount

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix timer use-after-free on failed mount Syzbot has found an ODEBUG bug in ext4fillsuper The deltimersync function cancels the serrreport timer, which reminds about filesystem errors daily. We should guarantee the timer is ...

CVE-2024-49960 ext4: fix timer use-after-free on failed mount

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix timer use-after-free on failed mount Syzbot has found an ODEBUG bug in ext4fillsuper The deltimersync function cancels the serrreport timer, which reminds about filesystem errors daily. We should guarantee the timer is ...

CVE-2024-49960

CVE-2024-49960 concerns ext4 on the Linux kernel. The issue is a timer use-after-free during failed mounts: the s_err_report timer can remain active while sbi is freed, because ext4_handle_error re-arms the timer before kfree(sbi). The root cause is not canceling the s_err_report timer after ext4...

CVE-2024-49960 ext4: fix timer use-after-free on failed mount

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix timer use-after-free on failed mount Syzbot has found an ODEBUG bug in ext4fillsuper The deltimersync function cancels the serrreport timer, which reminds about filesystem errors daily. We should guarantee the timer is ...