Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: send: handle path ref underflow in header iterate_inode_ref()
Change BUG_ON to proper error handling if building the path buffer fails. The pointers are not printed so we don’t accidentally leak kernel addresses.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 2.6.32 (+13 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: send: handle path ref underflow in header iterate_inode_ref()
Change BUG_ON to proper error handling if building the path buffer fails. The pointers are not printed so we don’t accidentally leak kernel addresses.