CVE-2024-49994

block: fix integer overflow in BLKSECDISCARD

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block: fix integer overflow in BLKSECDISCARD

I independently rediscovered

commit 22d24a544b0d49bbcbd61c8c0eaf77d3c9297155 block: fix overflow in blk_ioctl_discard()

but for secure erase.

Same problem:

uint64_t r[2] = {512, 18446744073709551104ULL}; ioctl(fd, BLKSECDISCARD, r);

will enter near infinite loop inside blkdev_issue_secure_erase():

a.out: attempt to access beyond end of device loop0: rw=5, sector=3399043073, nr_sectors = 1024 limit=2048 bio_check_eod: 3286214 callbacks suppressed

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 44abff2c0b970ae3d310b97617525dc01f248d7c to before 8476f8428e8b48fd7a0e4258fa2a96a8f4468239Affected
  • 44abff2c0b970ae3d310b97617525dc01f248d7c to before a99bacb35c1416355eef957560e8fcac3a665549Affected
  • 44abff2c0b970ae3d310b97617525dc01f248d7c to before 0842ddd83939eb4db940b9af7d39e79722bc41aaAffected
  • 44abff2c0b970ae3d310b97617525dc01f248d7c to before 6c9915fa9410cbb9bd75ee283c03120046c56d3dAffected
  • 44abff2c0b970ae3d310b97617525dc01f248d7c to before 697ba0b6ec4ae04afb67d3911799b5e2043b4455Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.1.128 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.75 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.14 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11.3 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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