CVE-2024-44938
kernel: jfs: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dbDiscardAG
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · August 26, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dbDiscardAG
When searching for the next smaller log2 block, BLKSTOL2() returned 0, causing shift exponent -1 to be negative.
This patch fixes the issue by exiting the loop directly when negative shift is found.
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-682 · Incorrect Calculation