Bug 1225873 (CVE-2024-36958) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-36958: kernel: NFSD: fix nfsd4_encode_fattr4() crasher
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-36958: kernel: NFSD: fix nfsd4_encode_fattr4() crasher
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2024-36958
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Security Team bot
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/408194/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-36958:5.5:(AV:...
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Reported: 2024-06-03 17:19 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified: 2024-06-04 19:08 UTC (History)
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-06-03 17:19:13 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSD: Fix nfsd4_encode_fattr4() crasher

Ensure that args.acl is initialized early. It is used in an
unconditional call to kfree() on the way out of
nfsd4_encode_fattr4().

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-36958
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-36958.mbox
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a7b07689af6e4e023404bf69b1230f43b2a15bc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18180a4550d08be4eb0387fe83f02f703f92d4e7
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36958
Comment 1 Miroslav Franc 2024-06-04 06:57:12 UTC 
Pertains only to stable including the fix.  Nothing to do.  Switching back to security team.