CVE-2024-53101
kernel: fs: Fix uninitialized value issue in from_kuid and from_kgid
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · November 25, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: Fix uninitialized value issue in from_kuid and from_kgid
ocfs2_setattr() uses attr->ia_mode, attr->ia_uid and attr->ia_gid in a trace point even though ATTR_MODE, ATTR_UID and ATTR_GID aren't set.
Initialize all fields of newattrs to avoid uninitialized variables, by checking if ATTR_MODE, ATTR_UID, ATTR_GID are initialized, otherwise 0.
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-457 · Use of Uninitialized Variable