# CVE-2024-47736: erofs: handle overlapped pclusters out of crafted images properly

> A crafted EROFS filesystem image can cause a kernel deadlock and task hang, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-50754, AZL-50883, BELL-CVE-2024-47736, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47736, GHSA-fh88-v2mj-cp79, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-47736, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-47736, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47736

## What is CVE-2024-47736?

CVE-2024-47736 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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:

erofs: handle overlapped pclusters out of crafted images properly

syzbot reported a task hang issue due to a deadlock case where it is
waiting for the folio lock of a cached folio that will be used for
cache I/Os.

After looking into the crafted fuzzed image, I found it's formed with
several overlapped big pclusters as below:

 Ext:   logical offset   |  length :     physical offset    |  length
   0:        0..   16384 |   16384 :     151552..    167936 |   16384
   1:    16384..   32768 |   16384 :     155648..    172032 |   16384
   2:    32768..   49152 |   16384 :  537223168.. 537239552 |   16384
...

Here, extent 0/1 are physically overlapped although it's entirely
_impossible_ for normal filesystem images generated by mkfs.

First, managed folios containing compressed data will be marked as
up-to-date and then unlocked immediately (unlike in-place folios) when
compressed I/Os are complete.  If physical blocks are not submitted in
the incremental order, there should be separate BIOs to avoid dependency
issues.  However, the current code mis-arranges z_erofs_fill_bio_vec()
and BIO submission which causes unexpected BIO waits.

Second, managed folios will be connected to their own pclusters for
efficient inter-queries.  However, this is somewhat hard to implement
easily if overlapped big pclusters exist.  Again, these only appear in
fuzzed images so let's simply fall back to temporary short-lived pages
for correctness.

Additionally, it justifies that referenced managed folios cannot be
truncated for now and reverts part of commit 2080ca1ed3e4 ("erofs: tidy
up `struct z_erofs_bvec`") for simplicity although it shouldn't be any
difference.

Weakness: CWE-667 (Improper Locking)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-47736?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-47736?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-47736 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-47736 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-47736 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-47736 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-47736 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47736/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47736/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47736
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47736
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-47736

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