{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-10-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: jbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error",
    "id" : "2320550",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2320550"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-99",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\njbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error\nIn __jbd2_log_wait_for_space(), we might call jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()\nto recover some journal space. But if an error occurs while executing\njbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() (e.g., an EIO), we don't stop waiting for free\nspace right away, we try other branches, and if j_committing_transaction\nis NULL (i.e., the tid is 0), we will get the following complain:\n============================================\nJBD2: I/O error when updating journal superblock for sdd-8.\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: needed 256 blocks and only had 217 space available\n__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: no way to get more journal space in sdd-8\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 139804 at fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c:109 __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 2 PID: 139804 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #1\nRIP: 0010:__jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\nadd_transaction_credits+0x5d1/0x5e0\nstart_this_handle+0x1ef/0x6a0\njbd2__journal_start+0x18b/0x340\next4_dirty_inode+0x5d/0xb0\n__mark_inode_dirty+0xe4/0x5d0\ngeneric_update_time+0x60/0x70\n[...]\n============================================\nSo only if jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns 1, i.e., there is nothing to\nclean up at the moment, continue to try to reclaim free space in other ways.\nNote that this fix relies on commit 6f6a6fda2945 (\"jbd2: fix ocfs2 corrupt\nwhen updating journal superblock fails\") to make jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail\nreturn the correct error code." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-05-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:6966",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-05-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:6966",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49959\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49959\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102131-CVE-2024-49959-ce09@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-49959",
  "csaw" : false
}