Bug 2309273 (CVE-2024-44947) - CVE-2024-44947 kernel: fuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setting uptodate
Summary: CVE-2024-44947 kernel: fuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setti...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-44947
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2309346
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Reported: 2024-09-02 18:20 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-03 08:38 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-02 18:20:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setting uptodate

fuse_notify_store(), unlike fuse_do_readpage(), does not enable page
zeroing (because it can be used to change partial page contents).

So fuse_notify_store() must be more careful to fully initialize page
contents (including parts of the page that are beyond end-of-file)
before marking the page uptodate.

The current code can leave beyond-EOF page contents uninitialized, which
makes these uninitialized page contents visible to userspace via mmap().

This is an information leak, but only affects systems which do not
enable init-on-alloc (via CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y or the
corresponding kernel command line parameter).


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