Bug 2320556 (CVE-2024-49999) - CVE-2024-49999 kernel: afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag
Summary: CVE-2024-49999 kernel: afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-49999
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2321035
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-10-21 19:10 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 08:30 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:6966 0 None None None 2025-05-13 08:30:39 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 19:10:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag

In afs_wait_for_operation(), we set transcribe the call responded flag to
the server record that we used after doing the fileserver iteration loop -
but it's possible to exit the loop having had a response from the server
that we've discarded (e.g. it returned an abort or we started receiving
data, but the call didn't complete).

This means that op->server might be NULL, but we don't check that before
attempting to set the server flag.

Comment 2 Avinash Hanwate 2024-10-23 04:19:42 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102139-CVE-2024-49999-e815@gregkh/T

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:30:37 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966


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