CVE-2024-49900

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer syzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178 ... Uninit was stored to memory at: ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline] ... Local variable ea_buf created at: __jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662 __jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934 ===================================================== The reason is ea_buf->new_ea is not initialized properly. Fix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning in ea_get().

CVSS 3.1

7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-908

Published

2024-10-21

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

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

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