Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-53131
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products5
- azl3 kernel 6.6.57.1-7 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.64.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.176.3-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.180.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.180.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 updates
3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 5.15.176.3-1 |
| — | Security Update | 6.6.64.2-1 |
| — | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-53131
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_touch_buffer tracepoint Patch series "nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref bugs on block tracepoints". This series fixes null pointer dereference bugs that occur when using nilfs2 and two block-related tracepoints. This patch (of 2): It has been reported that when using "block:block_touch_buffer" tracepoint, touch_buffer() called from __nilfs_get_folio_block() causes a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when KASAN is enabled. This happens because since the tracepoint was added in touch_buffer(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device structure. In the current implementation, the block_device structure is set after the function returns to the caller. Here, touch_buffer() is used to mark the folio/page that owns the buffer head as accessed, but the common search helper for folio/page used by the caller function was optimized to mark the folio/page as accessed when it was reimplemented a long time ago, eliminating the need to call touch_buffer() here in the first place. So this solves the issue by eliminating the touch_buffer() call itself.
Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-53131, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).