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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-38578" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-19T13:37:36.487Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:43:28.708Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z" 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-2024-38578" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38578.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38578" title: "ecryptfs: Fix buffer size for tag 66 packet" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\necryptfs: Fix buffer size for tag 66 packet\n\nThe 'TAG 66 Packet Format' description is missing the cipher code and\nchecksum fields that are packed into the message packet. As a result,\nthe buffer allocated for the packet is 3 bytes too small and\nwrite_tag_66_packet() will write up to 3 bytes past the end of the\nbuffer.\n\nFix this by increasing the size of the allocation so the whole packet\nwill always fit in the buffer.\n\nThis fixes the below kasan slab-out-of-bounds bug:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0\n Write of size 1 at addr ffff88800afbb2a5 by task touch/181\n\n CPU: 0 PID: 181 Comm: touch Not tainted 6.6.13-gnu #1 4c9534092be820851bb687b82d1f92a426598dc6\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2/GNU Guix 04/01/2014\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x70\n print_report+0xc5/0x610\n ? ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0\n ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x44/0x210\n ? ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0\n kasan_report+0xc2/0x110\n ? ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0\n __asan_store1+0x62/0x80\n ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0\n ? __pfx_ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x10/0x10\n ? __alloc_pages+0x2e2/0x540\n ? __pfx_ovl_open+0x10/0x10 [overlay 30837f11141636a8e1793533a02e6e2e885dad1d]\n ? dentry_open+0x8f/0xd0\n ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x30a/0x550\n ? __pfx_ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x10/0x10\n ? ecryptfs_get_lower_file+0x6b/0x190\n ecryptfs_initialize_file+0x77/0x150\n ecryptfs_create+0x1c2/0x2f0\n path_openat+0x17cf/0x1ba0\n ? __pfx_path_openat+0x10/0x10\n do_filp_open+0x15e/0x290\n ? __pfx_do_filp_open+0x10/0x10\n ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x30\n ? _raw_spin_lock+0x86/0xf0\n ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10\n ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x30\n ? alloc_fd+0xf4/0x330\n do_sys_openat2+0x122/0x160\n ? __pfx_do_sys_openat2+0x10/0x10\n __x64_sys_openat+0xef/0x170\n ? __pfx___x64_sys_openat+0x10/0x10\n do_syscall_64+0x60/0xd0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n RIP: 0033:0x7f00a703fd67\n Code: 25 00 00 41 00 3d 00 00 41 00 74 37 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 5b 44 89 e2 48 89 ee bf 9c ff ff ff b8 01 01 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 85 00 00 00 48 83 c4 68 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f\n RSP: 002b:00007ffc088e30b0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101\n RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc088e3368 RCX: 00007f00a703fd67\n RDX: 0000000000000941 RSI: 00007ffc088e48d7 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c\n RBP: 00007ffc088e48d7 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 00000000000001b6 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000941\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc088e48d7 R15: 00007f00a7180040\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 181:\n kasan_save_stack+0x2f/0x60\n kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40\n kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x40\n __kasan_kmalloc+0xc5/0xd0\n __kmalloc+0x66/0x160\n ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x6d2/0xde0\n ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x30a/0x550\n ecryptfs_initialize_file+0x77/0x150\n ecryptfs_create+0x1c2/0x2f0\n path_openat+0x17cf/0x1ba0\n do_filp_open+0x15e/0x290\n do_sys_openat2+0x122/0x160\n __x64_sys_openat+0xef/0x170\n do_syscall_64+0x60/0xd0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c125b9287e58f364d82174efb167414b92b11f1"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"235b85981051cd68fc215fd32a81c6f116bfc4df"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"edbfc42ab080e78c6907d40a42c9d10b69e445c1"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12db25a54ce6bb22b0af28010fff53ef9cb3fe93"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d0f8ba042af16519f1ef7dd10463a33b21b677c"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ed750b7ae1b5dc72896d7dd114c419afd3d1910"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a20f09452e2f58f761d11ad7b96b5c894c91030e"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6008487f1eeb8693f8d2a36a89c87d9122ddf74"},{"version":"dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85a6a1aff08ec9f5b929d345d066e2830e8818e5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.21","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.21"},{"version":"4.19.316","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.278","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.219","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","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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