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CVE-2024-44963 Design/Logic Flaw

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do not BUG_ON() when freeing tree block after error When freeing a tree block, at btrfs_free_tree_block(), if we fail to create a delayed reference we don't deal with the error and just do a BUG_ON(). The error most likely to happen is -ENOMEM, and we have a comment mentioning that only -ENOMEM can happen, but that is not true, because in case qgroups are enabled any error returned from btrfs_qgroup_trace_extent_post() (can be -EUCLEAN or anything returned from btrfs_search_slot() for example) can be propagated back to btrfs_free_tree_block(). So stop doing a BUG_ON() and return the error to the callers and make them abort the transaction to prevent leaking space. Syzbot was triggering this, likely due to memory allocation failure injection.

CWE:
CVSS v2-
CVSS v3-
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98251cd60b4d702a8a81de442ab621e83a3fb24f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb3868033a4cccff7be57e9145f2117cbdc91c11
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Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Design/Logic Flaw

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v25
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v36.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
MITRE CWE Top 25

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Exploits

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Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

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Threat Actor Activity

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Compliance Impact

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Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

WASC-11 - Brute Force