{"cve":"CVE-2024-49900","nvd":{"published":"2024-10-21T18:15:12.320","modified":"2026-10-15T01:19:00.527","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer\n\nsyzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value:\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178\n\n...\n\nUninit was stored to memory at:\n ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline]\n\n...\n\nLocal variable ea_buf created at:\n __jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662\n __jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934\n\n=====================================================\n\nThe reason is ea_buf->new_ea is not initialized properly.\n\nFix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning\nin ea_get().","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","score":7.1},"cwes":["CWE-908"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b59ffad47db1c46af25ccad157bb3b25147c35c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6041536d18c5f51a84bc37cd568cbab61870031e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b24d41d47a6805c45378debf8bd115675d41da8","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c244d5b48284a770d96ff703df2dfeadf804a73","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ad8b531de79c348bcb8133e7f5e827b884226af"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:56:33.105311382+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-49900","score":0.0028,"percentile":0.20228,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}