CVE-2024-58094

About vulnerability

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

jfs: add check read-only before truncation in jfs_truncate_nolock()

Added a check for “read-only” mode in the jfs_truncate_nolock function to avoid errors related to writing to a read-only filesystem.

Call stack:

block_write_begin() { jfs_write_failed() { jfs_truncate() { jfs_truncate_nolock() { txEnd() { … log = JFS_SBI(tblk->sb)->log; // (log == NULL)

If the isReadOnly(ip) condition is triggered in jfs_truncate_nolock, the function execution will stop, and no further data modification will occur. Instead, the xtTruncate function will be called with the “COMMIT_WMAP” flag, preventing modifications in “read-only” mode.

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 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS

Affected packages:

linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+16 more)

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

jfs: add check read-only before truncation in jfs_truncate_nolock()

Added a check for “read-only” mode in the jfs_truncate_nolock function to avoid errors related to writing to a read-only filesystem.

Call stack:

block_write_begin() { jfs_write_failed() { jfs_truncate() { jfs_truncate_nolock() { txEnd() { … log = JFS_SBI(tblk->sb)->log; // (log == NULL)

If the isReadOnly(ip) condition is triggered in jfs_truncate_nolock, the function execution will stop, and no further data modification will occur. Instead, the xtTruncate function will be called with the “COMMIT_WMAP” flag, preventing modifications in “read-only” mode.