CVE-2024-42311

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The vulnerability is related to the Linux kernel's hfs file system. It is caused by the failure to initialize certain fields in the hfs inode info struct after calling hfs alloc inode(). This can lead to an uninitialized value access issue, as reported by Syzbot. The issue is related to the hfs revalidate dentry() and hfs get block() functions. The vulnerability can be exploited to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.