CVE-2024-38578 (GCVE-0-2024-38578)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-19 13:37 – Updated: 2026-10-15 00:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ecryptfs: Fix buffer size for tag 66 packet
Summary
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:
<TASK>
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
</TASK>
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
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:14 UTC
Assigner
References
12 references
Impacted products
6 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < 1c125b9287e58f364d82174efb167414b92b11f1
(git)
Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < 235b85981051cd68fc215fd32a81c6f116bfc4df (git) Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < edbfc42ab080e78c6907d40a42c9d10b69e445c1 (git) Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < 12db25a54ce6bb22b0af28010fff53ef9cb3fe93 (git) Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < 0d0f8ba042af16519f1ef7dd10463a33b21b677c (git) Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < 2ed750b7ae1b5dc72896d7dd114c419afd3d1910 (git) Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < a20f09452e2f58f761d11ad7b96b5c894c91030e (git) Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < f6008487f1eeb8693f8d2a36a89c87d9122ddf74 (git) Affected: dddfa461fc8951f9b5f951c13565b6cac678635a , < 85a6a1aff08ec9f5b929d345d066e2830e8818e5 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.21
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.21 (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.316 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.278 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.219 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.161 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.93 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.33 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8.12 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.3 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM RST2428P |
Affected:
0 , < V3.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | SCALANCE XC-300/XR-300/XC-400/XR-500WG/XR-500 family |
Unaffected:
0 , < *
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | SCALANCE XCM-/XRM-/XCH-/XRH-300 family |
Affected:
0 , < V3.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem |
Affected:
0 , < V1.1.1
(custom)
|
guessed |
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"title": "ecryptfs: Fix buffer size for tag 66 packet",
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"cveId": "CVE-2024-38578",
"datePublished": "2024-06-19T13:37:36.487Z",
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
How durations are calculated
Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.
Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.