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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:jfs: fix null ptr deref in dtInsertEntry[syzbot reported]general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTIKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]CPU: 0 PID: 5061 Comm: syz-executor404 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024RIP: 0010:dtInsertEntry+0xd0c/0x1780 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:3713...[Analyze]In dtInsertEntry(), when the pointer h has the same value as p, after writingname in UniStrncpy_to_le(), p->header.flag will be cleared. This will cause thepreviously true judgment "p->header.flag & BT-LEAF" to change to no after writingthe name operation, this leads to entering an incorrect branch and accessing theuninitialized object ih when judging this condition for the second time.[Fix]After got the page, check freelist first, if freelist == 0 then exit dtInsert()and return -EINVAL.
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- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds