{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38599 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-38599 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 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-2024-38599 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-38599 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 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-2024-38599 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-2024-38599/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38599/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-38599","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38599/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-38599","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2024-38599","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38599","GHSA-w4vh-xgg6-r5f4","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38599"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel filesystem","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds write in the JFFS2 filesystem by setting an oversized extended attribute, causing kernel crashes or potential code execution.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"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-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njffs2: prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock\n\nAdd a check to make sure that the requested xattr node size is no larger\nthan the eraseblock minus the cleanmarker.\n\nUnlike the usual inode nodes, the xattr nodes aren't split into parts\nand spread across multiple eraseblocks, which means that a xattr node\nmust not occupy more than one eraseblock. If the requested xattr value is\ntoo large, the xattr node can spill onto the next eraseblock, overwriting\nthe nodes and causing errors such as:\n\njffs2: argh. node added in wrong place at 0x0000b050(2)\njffs2: nextblock 0x0000a000, expected at 0000b00c\njffs2: error: (823) do_verify_xattr_datum: node CRC failed at 0x01e050,\nread=0xfc892c93, calc=0x000000\njffs2: notice: (823) jffs2_get_inode_nodes: Node header CRC failed\nat 0x01e00c. {848f,2fc4,0fef511f,59a3d171}\njffs2: Node at 0x0000000c with length 0x00001044 would run over the\nend of the erase block\njffs2: Perhaps the file system was created with the wrong erase size?\njffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found\nat 0x00000010: 0x1044 instead\n\nThis breaks the filesystem and can lead to KASAN crashes such as:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in jffs2_sum_add_kvec+0x125e/0x15d0\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff88802c31e914 by task repro/830\nCPU: 0 PID: 830 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.9.0-rc3+ #1\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),\nBIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0xc6/0x120\n print_report+0xc4/0x620\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x308/0x5b0\n kasan_report+0xc1/0xf0\n ? jffs2_sum_add_kvec+0x125e/0x15d0\n ? jffs2_sum_add_kvec+0x125e/0x15d0\n jffs2_sum_add_kvec+0x125e/0x15d0\n jffs2_flash_direct_writev+0xa8/0xd0\n jffs2_flash_writev+0x9c9/0xef0\n ? __x64_sys_setxattr+0xc4/0x160\n ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x140\n ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n [...]\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","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":"jffs2: prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock","id":"CVE-2024-38599","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"ALSA: Fix deadlocks with kctl removals at disconnection","id":"CVE-2024-38600"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"md: fix resync softlockup when bitmap size is less than array size","id":"CVE-2024-38598"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-06-19","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":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds write in the JFFS2 filesystem by setting an oversized extended attribute, causing kernel crashes or potential code execution.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38599/"}