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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-26973 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles When fat_encode_fh_nostale() encodes file handle without a parent it stores only first 10 bytes of the file handle. However the length of the file handle must be a multiple of 4 so the file handle is actually 12 bytes long and the last two bytes remain uninitialized. This is not great at we potentially leak uninitialized information with the handle to userspace. Properly initialize the full handle length.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html siemens-SADP
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html siemens-SADP
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03a7e3f2ba3ca25f1da1d3898709a08db14c1abb CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74f852654b8b7866f15323685f1e178d3386c688 CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9840d1897e28f8733cc1e38f97e044f987dc0a63 CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a276c595c3a629170b0f052a3724f755d7c6adc6 CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7fb63e807c6dadf7ecc1d43448c4f1711d7eeee CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8cc05de8e6b5612b6e9f92c385c1a064b0db375 CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdd33d54e789d229d6d5007cbf3f53965ca1a5c6 CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f52d7663a10a1266a2d3871a6dd8fd111edc549f CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde2497d2bc3a063d8af88b258dbadc86bd7b57c CVE, kernel.org Mailing List  Patch 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html CVE Mailing List 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html CVE Mailing List 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-26973
NVD Published Date:
05/01/2024
NVD Last Modified:
05/12/2026
Source:
kernel.org