CVE-2024-38619 usb-storage: alauda: Check whether the media is initialized

What is CVE-2024-38619?

CVE-2024-38619 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 20 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

usb-storage: alauda: Check whether the media is initialized

The member "uzonesize" of struct alauda_info will remain 0 if alauda_init_media() fails, potentially causing divide errors in alauda_read_data() and alauda_write_lba(). - Add a member "media_initialized" to struct alauda_info. - Change a condition in alauda_check_media() to ensure the first initialization. - Add an error check for the return value of alauda_init_media().

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38619?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-38619?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-38619 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38619 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-38619, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38619, GHSA-2g5v-h9c6-j9cv, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38619.