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CVE-2024-44938

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-08-26 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-787

References