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    "id": "CVE-2024-40955",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40955",
    "idYear": 2024,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2024-07-12T12:31:58.328Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T20:23:04.131Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "ext4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists()\n\nWe can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds with the following commands:\n\n    mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/$disk 10G\n    mount /dev/$disk /tmp/test\n    echo 2147483647 > /sys/fs/ext4/$disk/mb_group_prealloc\n    echo test > /tmp/test/file && sync\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4]\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff888121b9d0f0 by task kworker/u2:0/11\nCPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u2:0 Tainted: GL 6.7.0-next-20240118 #521\nCall Trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0x2c/0x50\n kasan_report+0xb6/0xf0\n ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4]\n ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x19e9/0x2370 [ext4]\n ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x88a/0x1370 [ext4]\n ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x14f7/0x2390 [ext4]\n ext4_map_blocks+0x569/0xea0 [ext4]\n ext4_do_writepages+0x10f6/0x1bc0 [ext4]\n[...]\n==================================================================\n\nThe flow of issue triggering is as follows:\n\n// Set s_mb_group_prealloc to 2147483647 via sysfs\next4_mb_new_blocks\n  ext4_mb_normalize_request\n    ext4_mb_normalize_group_request\n      ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_group_prealloc\n  ext4_mb_regular_allocator\n    ext4_mb_choose_next_group\n      ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail\n        mb_avg_fragment_size_order\n          order = fls(len) - 2 = 29\n        ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists\n          frag_list = &sbi->s_mb_avg_fragment_size[order]\n          if (list_empty(frag_list)) // Trigger SOOB!\n\nAt 4k block size, the length of the s_mb_avg_fragment_size list is 14,\nbut an oversized s_mb_group_prealloc is set, causing slab-out-of-bounds\nto be triggered by an attempt to access an element at index 29.\n\nAdd a new attr_id attr_clusters_in_group with values in the range\n[0, sbi->s_clusters_per_group] and declare mb_group_prealloc as\nthat type to fix the issue. In addition avoid returning an order\nfrom mb_avg_fragment_size_order() greater than MB_NUM_ORDERS(sb)\nand reduce some useless loops.",
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              "version": "0",
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