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Tracker / CVE-2024-56774

CVE-2024-56774

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: add a sanity check for btrfs root in btrfs_search_slot() Syzbot reports a null-ptr-deref in btrfs_search_slot(). The reproducer is using rescue=ibadroots, and the extent tree root is corrupted thus the extent tree is NULL. When scrub tries to search the extent tree to gather the needed extent info, btrfs_search_slot() doesn't check if the target root is NULL or not, resulting the null-ptr-deref. Add sanity check for btrfs root before using it in btrfs_search_slot().

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.174
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.120
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.64
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.4

Analysis

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