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.
Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024072942-CVE-2024-42084-9283@gregkh/T
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301727]
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
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
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
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