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critical 9.8

CVE-2024-38623 in the critical feed json

fs/ntfs3: Use variable length array instead of fixed size

published 2024-06-21 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-37486

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: Use variable length array instead of fixed size

Should fix smatch warning: ntfs_set_label() error: __builtin_memcpy() 'uni->name' too small (20 vs 256)

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.161, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.9.4, 6.10
  • linux linux_kernel 1fe1c9dc21ee, 1997cdc3e727, 3839a9b19a4b, a2de301d90b7, cceef44b3481
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.94-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.9.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38623

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-121.131
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-44.44
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1069.75
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1015.16
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1068.76
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1014.16
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1066.72
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1010.13

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38623

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-38623 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: fs/ntfs3: Use variable length array instead of fixed size

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux
  • linux linux_kernel

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index
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References

Sources

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