UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53171

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: authentication: Fix use-after-free in ubifstncendcommit After an insertion in TNC, the tree might split and cause a node to change its znode-parent. A further deletion of other nodes in the tree which also could free the...

CVE-2024-53171

CVE-2024-53171 affects the Linux kernel ubifs authentication path. The published details describe a use-after-free in ubifs_tnc_end_commit arising when a node’s znode->parent changes due to a tree split, while the node’s znode->cparent may still point to freed memory after deletions. The is...