CVE - CVE-2024-50088

CVE-ID
CVE-2024-50088	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free in add_inode_ref() The add_inode_ref() function does not initialize the "name" struct when it is declared. If any of the following calls to "read_one_inode() returns NULL, dir = read_one_inode(root, parent_objectid); if (!dir) { ret = -ENOENT; goto out; } inode = read_one_inode(root, inode_objectid); if (!inode) { ret = -EIO; goto out; } then "name.name" would be freed on "out" before being initialized. out: ... kfree(name.name); This issue was reported by Coverity with CID 1526744.
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12cf028381aa19bc38465341512c280256e8d82d URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12cf028381aa19bc38465341512c280256e8d82d MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66691c6e2f18d2aa4b22ffb624b9bdc97e9979e4 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66691c6e2f18d2aa4b22ffb624b9bdc97e9979e4 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a941f3d5b1469c60a7e70e775584f110b47e0d16 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a941f3d5b1469c60a7e70e775584f110b47e0d16 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e11ce03b58743bf1e096c48fcaa7e6f08eb75dfa URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e11ce03b58743bf1e096c48fcaa7e6f08eb75dfa
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20241021	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20241021)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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