{"id":"AZL-51485","summary":"CVE-2024-49900 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.173.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer\n\nsyzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value:\n\n=====================================================\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178\n\n...\n\nUninit was stored to memory at:\n ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline]\n\n...\n\nLocal variable ea_buf created at:\n __jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662\n __jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934\n\n=====================================================\n\nThe reason is ea_buf-\u003enew_ea is not initialized properly.\n\nFix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning\nin ea_get().","modified":"2026-04-01T05:16:25.176100Z","published":"2024-10-21T18:15:12Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-49900"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49900"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.173.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-51485.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:H/I:N/A:H"}]}