CVE-2024-42257
kernel: ext4: use memtostr_pad() for s_volume_name
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · August 8, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: use memtostr_pad() for s_volume_name
As with the other strings in struct ext4_super_block, s_volume_name is not NUL terminated. The other strings were marked in commit 072ebb3bffe6 ("ext4: add nonstring annotations to ext4.h"). Using strscpy() isn't the right replacement for strncpy(); it should use memtostr_pad() instead.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE not specified