{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38306 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-38306 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-38306 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-38306 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38306 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38306/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38306/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-38306","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38306/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-38306","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-38306","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38306","GHSA-9r8q-3pmv-vr2f","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-38306","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38306"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's btrfs filesystem can cause kernel crashes, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-617","name":"Reachable Assertion"},{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: protect folio::private when attaching extent buffer folios\n\n[BUG]\nSince v6.8 there are rare kernel crashes reported by various people,\nthe common factor is bad page status error messages like this:\n\n  BUG: Bad page state in process kswapd0  pfn:d6e840\n  page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:000000007512f4f2 index:0x2796c2c7c\n  pfn:0xd6e840\n  aops:btree_aops ino:1\n  flags: 0x17ffffe0000008(uptodate|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3fffff)\n  page_type: 0xffffffff()\n  raw: 0017ffffe0000008 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff88826d0be4c0\n  raw: 00000002796c2c7c 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\n  page dumped because: non-NULL mapping\n\n[CAUSE]\nCommit 09e6cef19c9f (\"btrfs: refactor alloc_extent_buffer() to\nallocate-then-attach method\") changes the sequence when allocating a new\nextent buffer.\n\nPreviously we always called grab_extent_buffer() under\nmapping-\u003ei_private_lock, to ensure the safety on modification on\nfolio::private (which is a pointer to extent buffer for regular\nsectorsize).\n\nThis can lead to the following race:\n\nThread A is trying to allocate an extent buffer at bytenr X, with 4\n4K pages, meanwhile thread B is trying to release the page at X + 4K\n(the second page of the extent buffer at X).\n\n           Thread A                |                 Thread B\n-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------\n                                   | btree_release_folio()\n\t\t\t\t   | | This is for the page at X + 4K,\n\t\t\t\t   | | Not page X.\n\t\t\t\t   | |\nalloc_extent_buffer()              | |- release_extent_buffer()\n|- filemap_add_folio() for the     | |  |- atomic_dec_and_test(eb-\u003erefs)\n|  page at bytenr X (the first     | |  |\n|  page).                          | |  |\n|  Which returned -EEXIST.         | |  |\n|                                  | |  |\n|- filemap_lock_folio()            | |  |\n|  Returned the first page locked. | |  |\n|                                  | |  |\n|- grab_extent_buffer()            | |  |\n|  |- atomic_inc_not_zero()        | |  |\n|  |  Returned false               | |  |\n|  |- folio_detach_private()       | |  |- folio_detach_private() for X\n|     |- folio_test_private()      | |     |- folio_test_private()\n      |  Returned true             | |     |  Returned true\n      |- folio_put()               |       |- folio_put()\n\nNow there are two puts on the same folio at folio X, leading to refcount\nunderflow of the folio X, and eventually causing the BUG_ON() on the\npage-\u003emapping.\n\nThe condition is not that easy to hit:\n\n- The release must be triggered for the middle page of an eb\n  If the release is on the same first page of an eb, page lock would kick\n  in and prevent the race.\n\n- folio_detach_private() has a very small race window\n  It's only between folio_test_private() and folio_clear_private().\n\nThat's exactly when mapping-\u003ei_private_lock is used to prevent such race,\nand commit 09e6cef19c9f (\"btrfs: refactor alloc_extent_buffer() to\nallocate-then-attach method\") screwed that up.\n\nAt that time, I thought the page lock would kick in as\nfilemap_release_folio() also requires the page to be locked, but forgot\nthe filemap_release_folio() only locks one page, not all pages of an\nextent buffer.\n\n[FIX]\nMove all the code requiring i_private_lock into\nattach_eb_folio_to_filemap(), so that everything is done with proper\nlock protection.\n\nFurthermore to prevent future problems, add an extra\nlockdep_assert_locked() to ensure we're holding the proper lock.\n\nTo reproducer that is able to hit the race (takes a few minutes with\ninstrumented code inserting delays to alloc_extent_buffer()):\n\n  #!/bin/sh\n  drop_caches () {\n\t  while(true); do\n\t\t  echo 3 \u003e /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches\n\t\t  echo 1 \u003e /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory\n\t  done\n  }\n\n  run_tar () {\n\t  while(true); do\n\t\t  for x in `seq 1 80` ; do\n\t\t\t  tar cf /dev/zero /mnt \u003e /dev/null \u0026\n\t\t  done\n\t\t  wait\n\t  done\n  }\n\n  mkfs.btrfs -f -d single -m single\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"btrfs: protect folio::private when attaching extent buffer folios","id":"CVE-2024-38306","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability","id":"CVE-2024-38307"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in SupportAssist for Home PCs","id":"CVE-2024-38305"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-06-25","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's btrfs filesystem can cause kernel crashes, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38306/"}