CVE-2024-44963
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44963
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-44963.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-44963
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2024-09-04T19:15:30Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:28Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not BUG_ON() when freeing tree block after error
When freeing a tree block, at btrfsfreetreeblock(), if we fail to create a delayed reference we don't deal with the error and just do a BUGON(). The error most likely to happen is -ENOMEM, and we have a comment mentioning that only -ENOMEM can happen, but that is not true, because in case qgroups are enabled any error returned from btrfsqgrouptraceextentpost() (can be -EUCLEAN or anything returned from btrfssearchslot() for example) can be propagated back to btrfsfreetree_block().
So stop doing a BUG_ON() and return the error to the callers and make them abort the transaction to prevent leaking space. Syzbot was triggering this, likely due to memory allocation failure injection.
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