CVE-2024-52560 (GCVE-0-2024-52560)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-27 02:18 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:43
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Title
fs/ntfs3: Mark inode as bad as soon as error detected in mi_enum_attr()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Mark inode as bad as soon as error detected in mi_enum_attr() Extended the `mi_enum_attr()` function interface with an additional parameter, `struct ntfs_inode *ni`, to allow marking the inode as bad as soon as an error is detected.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e , < d9c699f2c4dc174940ffe8600b20c267897da155 (git)
Affected: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e , < 2afd4d267e6dbaec8d3ccd4f5396cb84bc67aa2e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.4 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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