🛡️ CVE-2024-35849 — debian-linux

🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-908 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

btrfs: fix information leak in btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix information leak in btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino()

Syzbot reported the following information leak for in

btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino():

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x110 lib/usercopy.c:40

instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]

_copy_to_user+0xbc/0x110 lib/usercopy.c:40

copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline]

btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0x440/0x750 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3499

btrfs_ioctl+0x714/0x1260

vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:904 [inline]

__se_sys_ioctl+0x261/0x450 fs/ioctl.c:890

__x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:890

x64_sys_call+0x1883/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:

__kmalloc_large_node+0x231/0x370 mm/slub.c:3921

__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3954 [inline]

__kmalloc_node+0xb07/0x1060 mm/slub.c:3973

kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:648 [inline]

kvmalloc_node+0xc0/0x2d0 mm/util.c:634

kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:766 [inline]

init_data_container+0x49/0x1e0 fs/btrfs/backref.c:2779

btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0x17c/0x750 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3480

btrfs_ioctl+0x714/0x1260

vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:904 [inline]

__se_sys_ioctl+0x261/0x450 fs/ioctl.c:890

__x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:890

x64_sys_call+0x1883/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Bytes 40-65535 of 65536 are uninitialized

Memory access of size 65536 starts at ffff888045a40000

This happens, because we're copying a 'struct btrfs_data_container' back

to user-space. This btrfs_data_container is allocated in

'init_data_container()' via kvmalloc(), which does not zero-fill the

memory.

Fix this by using kvzalloc() which zeroes out the memory on allocation.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-35849 is classified as CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource. A resource is read before being initialised, so its contents are whatever was left there.

Affected software

CVE-2024-35849 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.8.9)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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CVE-2024-35849 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-908
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
kernel 6.7.0 6.8.9
linux-kernel

References

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