# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26981"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:27:06.469Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:08:06.091Z"
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-2024-26981"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26981.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26981"
title: "nilfs2: fix OOB in nilfs_set_de_type"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix OOB in nilfs_set_de_type\n\nThe size of the nilfs_type_by_mode array in the fs/nilfs2/dir.c file is\ndefined as \"S_IFMT \u003e\u003e S_SHIFT\", but the nilfs_set_de_type() function,\nwhich uses this array, specifies the index to read from the array in the\nsame way as \"(mode & S_IFMT) \u003e\u003e S_SHIFT\".\n\nstatic void nilfs_set_de_type(struct nilfs_dir_entry *de, struct inode\n *inode)\n{\n\tumode_t mode = inode-\u003ei_mode;\n\n\tde-\u003efile_type = nilfs_type_by_mode[(mode & S_IFMT)\u003e\u003eS_SHIFT]; // oob\n}\n\nHowever, when the index is determined this way, an out-of-bounds (OOB)\nerror occurs by referring to an index that is 1 larger than the array size\nwhen the condition \"mode & S_IFMT == S_IFMT\" is satisfied.  Therefore, a\npatch to resize the nilfs_type_by_mode array should be applied to prevent\nOOB errors."
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