Bug 2300533 (CVE-2024-42084) - CVE-2024-42084 kernel: ftruncate: pass a signed offset
Summary: CVE-2024-42084 kernel: ftruncate: pass a signed offset
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-42084
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: 2301727 2307206
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-07-29 17:20 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-03-26 02:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 4.19.317, kernel 5.4.279, kernel 5.10.221, kernel 5.15.162, kernel 6.1.97, kernel 6.6.37, kernel 6.9.8, kernel 6.10
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:7043 0 None None None 2024-09-24 09:43:28 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:7198 0 None None None 2024-09-26 09:50:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:7236 0 None None None 2024-09-26 14:38:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:7637 0 None None None 2024-10-03 14:46:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:8227 0 None None None 2024-10-17 06:46:16 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:7000 0 None None None 2024-09-24 02:35:18 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:7001 0 None None None 2024-09-24 00:39:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:9315 0 None None None 2024-11-12 09:37:30 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:3215 0 None None None 2025-03-26 02:12:49 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-29 17:20:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ftruncate: pass a signed offset

The old ftruncate() syscall, using the 32-bit off_t misses a sign
extension when called in compat mode on 64-bit architectures.  As a
result, passing a negative length accidentally succeeds in truncating
to file size between 2GiB and 4GiB.

Changing the type of the compat syscall to the signed compat_off_t
changes the behavior so it instead returns -EINVAL.

The native entry point, the truncate() syscall and the corresponding
loff_t based variants are all correct already and do not suffer
from this mistake.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 17:13:36 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024072942-CVE-2024-42084-9283@gregkh/T

Comment 2 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 17:13:57 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301727]

Comment 130 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 00:39:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:7001 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7001

Comment 131 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 02:35:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:7000 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7000

Comment 132 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-12 09:37:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:9315 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315

Comment 133 errata-xmlrpc 2025-03-26 02:12:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:3215 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3215


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