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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26956" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:18:56.101Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:07:38.180Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26956" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26956.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26956" title: "nilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings\n\nPatch series \"nilfs2: fix kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()\".\n\nThis resolves a kernel BUG reported by syzbot. Since there are two\nflaws involved, I've made each one a separate patch.\n\nThe first patch alone resolves the syzbot-reported bug, but I think\nboth fixes should be sent to stable, so I've tagged them as such.\n\n\nThis patch (of 2):\n\nSyzbot has reported a kernel bug in submit_bh_wbc() when writing file data\nto a nilfs2 file system whose metadata is corrupted.\n\nThere are two flaws involved in this issue.\n\nThe first flaw is that when nilfs_get_block() locates a data block using\nbtree or direct mapping, if the disk address translation routine\nnilfs_dat_translate() fails with internal code -ENOENT due to DAT metadata\ncorruption, it can be passed back to nilfs_get_block(). This causes\nnilfs_get_block() to misidentify an existing block as non-existent,\ncausing both data block lookup and insertion to fail inconsistently.\n\nThe second flaw is that nilfs_get_block() returns a successful status in\nthis inconsistent state. This causes the caller __block_write_begin_int()\nor others to request a read even though the buffer is not mapped,\nresulting in a BUG_ON check for the BH_Mapped flag in submit_bh_wbc()\nfailing.\n\nThis fixes the first issue by changing the return value to code -EINVAL\nwhen a conversion using DAT fails with code -ENOENT, avoiding the\nconflicting condition that leads to the kernel bug described above. Here,\ncode -EINVAL indicates that metadata corruption was detected during the\nblock lookup, which will be properly handled as a file system error and\nconverted to -EIO when passing through the nilfs2 bmap layer." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b67189690eb4b7ecc84ae16fa1e880e0123eaa35"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9cbe1ad5f4354f4df1445e5f4883983328cd6d8e"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3b5c5c31e723b568f83d8cafab8629d9d830ffb"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e2619ff5d0def4bb6c2037a32a6eaa28dd95c84"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46b832e09d43b394ac0f6d9485d2b1a06593f0b7"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f69e81396aea66304d214f175aa371f1b5578862"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8e4d098de1c0f4c5c1f2ed4633a860f0da6d713"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82827ca21e7c8a91384c5baa656f78a5adfa4ab4"},{"version":"c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2f26b4a84a0ef41791bd2d70861c8eac748f4ba"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.31","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.31"},{"version":"4.19.312","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.274","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.215","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.84","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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