CVE-2024-58001

Updated on 27 Feb 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: handle a symlink read error correctly

Patch series “Convert ocfs2 to use folios”.

Mark did a conversion of ocfs2 to use folios and sent it to me as a giant patch for review ;-)

So I’ve redone it as individual patches, and credited Mark for the patches where his code is substantially the same. It’s not a bad way to do it; his patch had some bugs and my patches had some bugs. Hopefully all our bugs were different from each other. And hopefully Mark likes all the changes I made to his code!

This patch (of 23):

If we can’t read the buffer, be sure to unlock the page before returning.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 4.4.0 (+14 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: handle a symlink read error correctly

Patch series “Convert ocfs2 to use folios”.

Mark did a conversion of ocfs2 to use folios and sent it to me as a giant patch for review ;-)

So I’ve redone it as individual patches, and credited Mark for the patches where his code is substantially the same. It’s not a bad way to do it; his patch had some bugs and my patches had some bugs. Hopefully all our bugs were different from each other. And hopefully Mark likes all the changes I made to his code!

This patch (of 23):

If we can’t read the buffer, be sure to unlock the page before returning.

Fixes