CVE-2024-57976

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

Description A bug in the Linux kernel's btrfs filesystem can cause a crash when the cow file range() function fails, leading to improper cleanup of folios. This issue is related to error handling in the extent writepage io() function. The problem occurs when the btrfs run delalloc range() function fails, causing the cow file range() function to return an error, and subsequent writeback attempts can trigger a BUG ON() crash. The estimated number of potentially affected devices is not available.

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