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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2024-57924 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: relax assertions on failure to encode file handles Encoding file handles is usually performed by a filesystem >encode_fh() method that may fail for various reasons. The legacy users of exportfs_encode_fh()

[NVD] CVE-2024-57924 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: relax assertions on failure to encode file handles Encoding file handles is usually performed by a filesystem >encode_fh() method that may fail for various reasons. The legacy users of exportfs_encode_fh()

lownvdPublished 2025-01-19

CVE-2024-57924 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2025-01-19T12:15:26.530

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

fs: relax assertions on failure to encode file handles

Encoding file handles is usually performed by a filesystem >encode_fh() method that may fail for various reasons.

The legacy users of exportfs_encode_fh(), namely, nfsd and name_to_handle_at(2) syscall are

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2024-57924cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57924