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High severity Unreviewed Published Jun 19, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 17, 2025

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Affected versions

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Patched versions

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ecryptfs: Fix buffer size for tag 66 packet

The 'TAG 66 Packet Format' description is missing the cipher code and
checksum fields that are packed into the message packet. As a result,
the buffer allocated for the packet is 3 bytes too small and
write_tag_66_packet() will write up to 3 bytes past the end of the
buffer.

Fix this by increasing the size of the allocation so the whole packet
will always fit in the buffer.

This fixes the below kasan slab-out-of-bounds bug:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0
Write of size 1 at addr ffff88800afbb2a5 by task touch/181

CPU: 0 PID: 181 Comm: touch Not tainted 6.6.13-gnu #1 4c9534092be820851bb687b82d1f92a426598dc6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2/GNU Guix 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x70
print_report+0xc5/0x610
? ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0
? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x44/0x210
? ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0
kasan_report+0xc2/0x110
? ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0
__asan_store1+0x62/0x80
ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x7d6/0xde0
? __pfx_ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x10/0x10
? __alloc_pages+0x2e2/0x540
? __pfx_ovl_open+0x10/0x10 [overlay 30837f11141636a8e1793533a02e6e2e885dad1d]
? dentry_open+0x8f/0xd0
ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x30a/0x550
? __pfx_ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x10/0x10
? ecryptfs_get_lower_file+0x6b/0x190
ecryptfs_initialize_file+0x77/0x150
ecryptfs_create+0x1c2/0x2f0
path_openat+0x17cf/0x1ba0
? __pfx_path_openat+0x10/0x10
do_filp_open+0x15e/0x290
? __pfx_do_filp_open+0x10/0x10
? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x30
? _raw_spin_lock+0x86/0xf0
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x30
? alloc_fd+0xf4/0x330
do_sys_openat2+0x122/0x160
? __pfx_do_sys_openat2+0x10/0x10
__x64_sys_openat+0xef/0x170
? __pfx___x64_sys_openat+0x10/0x10
do_syscall_64+0x60/0xd0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
RIP: 0033:0x7f00a703fd67
Code: 25 00 00 41 00 3d 00 00 41 00 74 37 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 5b 44 89 e2 48 89 ee bf 9c ff ff ff b8 01 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 85 00 00 00 48 83 c4 68 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f
RSP: 002b:00007ffc088e30b0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc088e3368 RCX: 00007f00a703fd67
RDX: 0000000000000941 RSI: 00007ffc088e48d7 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 00007ffc088e48d7 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000000001b6 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000941
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc088e48d7 R15: 00007f00a7180040

Allocated by task 181:
kasan_save_stack+0x2f/0x60
kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x40
__kasan_kmalloc+0xc5/0xd0
__kmalloc+0x66/0x160
ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x6d2/0xde0
ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x30a/0x550
ecryptfs_initialize_file+0x77/0x150
ecryptfs_create+0x1c2/0x2f0
path_openat+0x17cf/0x1ba0
do_filp_open+0x15e/0x290
do_sys_openat2+0x122/0x160
__x64_sys_openat+0xef/0x170
do_syscall_64+0x60/0xd0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 19, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 19, 2024
Last updated Sep 17, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(1st percentile)

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-38578

GHSA ID

GHSA-q624-v3v9-vmp4

Source code

No known source code

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