CVE-2024-26955 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-26955

nilfs2: prevent kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: prevent kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc() Fix a bug where nilfs_get_block() returns a successful status when searching and inserting the specified block both fail inconsistently. If this inconsistent behavior is not due to a previously fixed bug, then an unexpected race is occurring, so return a temporary error -EAGAIN instead. This prevents callers such as __block_write_begin_int() from requesting a read into a buffer that is not mapped, which would cause the BUG_ON check for the BH_Mapped flag in submit_bh_wbc() to fail.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
1f5abe7e7dbcd83e73212c6cb135a6106cea6a0b, 2.6.30, 0, 4.19.312, 5.4.274, 5.10.215, 5.15.154, 6.1.84, 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 6.8.3, 6.9

Timeline

Official Publish: May 1st, 2024
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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