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CVE-2024-44938
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-08-26T12:15:05.960 · Last modified 2026-06-17T07:53:15.937

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dbDiscardAG When searching for the next smaller log2 block, BLKSTOL2() returned 0, causing shift exponent -1 to be negative. This patch fixes the issue by exiting the loop directly when negative shift is found.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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