CVE-2024-42084
Essential information
- Published
- 29/07/2024 17:15
- Modified
- 29/07/2024 17:15
- Author
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- Creator
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- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftruncate: pass a signed offset
The old ftruncate() syscall, using the 32-bit off_t misses a sign
extension when called in compat mode on 64-bit architectures. As a
result, passing a negative length accidentally succeeds in truncating
to file size between 2GiB and 4GiB.
Changing the type of the compat syscall to the signed compat_off_t
changes the behavior so it instead returns -EINVAL.
The native entry point, the truncate() syscall and the corresponding
loff_t based variants are all correct already and do not suffer
from this mistake.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- NVD
- View on NVD