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CVE-2024-42160: f2fs: check validation of fault attrs in f2fs_build_fault_attr()

7.8 CVSS

Description

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

f2fs: check validation of fault attrs in f2fs_build_fault_attr()

- It missed to check validation of fault attrs in parse_options(),
let's fix to add check condition in f2fs_build_fault_attr().
- Use f2fs_build_fault_attr() in __sbi_store() to clean up code.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-42160

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.39% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-31 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42160
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e5b601706ce05d94338cad598736d96bb8096c8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc84dd2c33e0c10fd90d60f0cfc0bfb504d4692d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44958ca9e400f57bd0478115519ffc350fcee61e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecb641f424d6d1f055d149a15b892edcc92c504b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ed886b187f47447ad559619c48c086f432d2b77

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