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CVE-2024-56774

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-01-08 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: add a sanity check for btrfs root in btrfs_search_slot() Syzbot reports a null-ptr-deref in btrfs_search_slot(). The reproducer is using rescue=ibadroots, and the extent tree root is corrupted thus the extent tree is NULL. When scrub tries to search the extent tree to gather the needed extent info, btrfs_search_slot() doesn't check if the target root is NULL or not, resulting the null-ptr-deref. Add sanity check for btrfs root before using it in btrfs_search_slot().

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476, CWE-476

References