Service interruption via malformed EROFS cluster metadata
Published Dec 27, 2024 · Updated May 23, 2026
Improper EROFS compressed-cluster handling in Linux allows local users to interrupt service through FIEMAP on a crafted image. The EROFS map routine in fs/erofs/zmap.c exits when a NONHEAD logical cluster has delta[1] equal to zero, leaving an inadequate decompressed length for iomap_fiemap. Exploitation requires local access to such a crafted or legacy EROFS filesystem and affects availability without reported data disclosure or modification.
Summary
What happened
Improper EROFS compressed-cluster handling in Linux allows local users to interrupt service through FIEMAP on a crafted image. The EROFS map routine in fs/erofs/zmap.c exits when a NONHEAD logical cluster has delta[1] equal to zero, leaving an inadequate decompressed length for iomap_fiemap. Exploitation requires local access to such a crafted or legacy EROFS filesystem and affects availability without reported data disclosure or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-53234
- Published
- Dec 27, 2024
- Updated
- May 23, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 27, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 23, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.10.188 <5.11
- Affected versionversion=5.15
- Affected versionversion=5.4.251 <5.5
- Affected versionversion=8c723eef989bc419585237daa467b787ddca5415
- Affected versionversion=96a85becb811ca2ce21a21721f1544d342ae431e
- Affected versionversion=d95ae5e25326092d61613acf98280270dde22778 <0bc8061ffc733a0a246b8689b2d32a3e9204f43c
- Affected versionversion=d95ae5e25326092d61613acf98280270dde22778 <480c6c7b55aeacac800bc2a0d321ff53273045e5
- Affected versionversion=d95ae5e25326092d61613acf98280270dde22778 <75a0a6dde803e7a3af700da8da9a361b49f69eba
- Affected versionversion=d95ae5e25326092d61613acf98280270dde22778 <daaf68fef4b2ff97928227630021d37b27a96655
- Affected versionversion=d95ae5e25326092d61613acf98280270dde22778 <f466641debcbea8bdf78d1b63a6270aadf9301bf
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