High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 8, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-42257
CVE-2024-42257
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: use memtostr_pad() for s_volume_name
As with the other strings in struct ext4_super_block, s_volume_name is not NUL terminated. The other strings were marked in commit 072ebb3bffe6 ("ext4: add nonstring annotations to ext4.h"). Using strscpy() isn't the right replacement for strncpy(); it should use memtostr_pad() instead.
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