Vulnerability CVE-2024-42257


Published: 2024-08-08

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.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4378be89ddb7de88d984b67ecfd6191686c42817
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be27cd64461c45a6088a91a04eba5cd44e1767ef

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