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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().
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- 6.1.106-1, 6.1.106-2, 6.1.106-3, 6.1.112-1, 6.1.27-1, 6.1.37-1, 6.1.38-1, 6.1.38-2, 6.1.38-2~bpo11+1, 6.1.38-3, 6.1.38-4, 6.1.38-4~bpo11+1, 6.1.52-1, 6.1.55-1, 6.1.55-1~bpo11+1, 6.1.64-1, 6.1.66-1, 6.1.67-1, 6.1.69-1, 6.1.69-1~bpo11+1, 6.1.76-1, 6.1.76-1~bpo11+1, 6.1.82-1, 6.1.85-1, 6.1.90-1, 6.1.90-1~bpo11+1, 6.1.94-1, 6.1.94-1~bpo11+1, 6.1.98-1, 6.1.99-1
- Fixed versions
- 6.1.115-1, 6.11.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-49900
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 16:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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().
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49900
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.115-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.11.4-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.11.4-1
Complete source record
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