CVE-2024-44947

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fuse: Initialize beyond-EOF page contents before setting uptodate fuse_notify_store(), unlike fuse_do_readpage(), does not enable page zeroing (because it can be used to change partial page contents). So fuse_notify_store() must be more careful to fully initialize page contents (including parts of the page that are beyond end-of-file) before marking the page uptodate. The current code can leave beyond-EOF page contents uninitialized, which makes these uninitialized page contents visible to userspace via mmap(). This is an information leak, but only affects systems which do not enable init-on-alloc (via CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y or the corresponding kernel command line parameter).

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2024-09-02

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-665

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18a067240817bee8a9360539af5d79a4bf5398a5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33168db352c7b56ae18aa55c2cae1a1c5905d30e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c0da3d163eb32f1f91891efaade027fa9b245b9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4690e2171f651e2b415e3941ce17f2f7b813aff6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49934861514d36d0995be8e81bb3312a499d8d9a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/831433527773e665bdb635ab5783d0b95d1246f4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c78303eafbf85a728dd84d1750e89240c677dd9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac42e0f0eb66af966015ee33fd355bc6f5d80cd6
• https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/42451729
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html