{"id":"AZL-49318","summary":"CVE-2024-46701 affecting package kernel 6.6.126.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir\n\nAfter we switch tmpfs dir operations from simple_dir_operations to\nsimple_offset_dir_operations, every rename happened will fill new dentry\nto dest dir's maple tree(&SHMEM_I(inode)-\u003edir_offsets-\u003emt) with a free\nkey starting with octx-\u003enewx_offset, and then set newx_offset equals to\nfree key + 1. This will lead to infinite readdir combine with rename\nhappened at the same time, which fail generic/736 in xfstests(detail show\nas below).\n\n1. create 5000 files(1 2 3...) under one dir\n2. call readdir(man 3 readdir) once, and get one entry\n3. rename(entry, \"TEMPFILE\"), then rename(\"TEMPFILE\", entry)\n4. loop 2~3, until readdir return nothing or we loop too many\n   times(tmpfs break test with the second condition)\n\nWe choose the same logic what commit 9b378f6ad48cf (\"btrfs: fix infinite\ndirectory reads\") to fix it, record the last_index when we open dir, and\ndo not emit the entry which index \u003e= last_index. The file-\u003eprivate_data\nnow used in offset dir can use directly to do this, and we also update\nthe last_index when we llseek the dir file.\n\n[brauner: only update last_index after seek when offset is zero like Jan suggested]","modified":"2026-04-01T05:17:22.175174Z","published":"2024-09-13T07:15:05Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-46701"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46701"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.6.126.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-49318.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}