🛡️ CVE-2024-41013 — kernel

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

Description

xfs: don't walk off the end of a directory data block

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

xfs: don't walk off the end of a directory data block

This adds sanity checks for xfs_dir2_data_unused and xfs_dir2_data_entry

to make sure don't stray beyond valid memory region. Before patching, the

loop simply checks that the start offset of the dup and dep is within the

range. So in a crafted image, if last entry is xfs_dir2_data_unused, we

can change dup->length to dup->length-1 and leave 1 byte of space. In the

next traversal, this space will be considered as dup or dep. We may

encounter an out of bound read when accessing the fixed members.

In the patch, we make sure that the remaining bytes large enough to hold

an unused entry before accessing xfs_dir2_data_unused and

xfs_dir2_data_unused is XFS_DIR2_DATA_ALIGN byte aligned. We also make

sure that the remaining bytes large enough to hold a dirent with a

single-byte name before accessing xfs_dir2_data_entry.

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.

Affected software

CVE-2024-41013 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.2.0 up to 6.6.68)
  • linux-kernel (from 6.7 up to 6.11)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 July 2024 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2024-41013 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 N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-29
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.2.0 6.6.68
linux-kernel 6.7 6.11

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