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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

jfs: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dbDiscardAG

CVE-2024-44938

Description

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

146

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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