In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
afs: Fix endless loop in directory parsing
If a directory has a block with only ".__afsXXXX" files in it (from
uncompleted silly-rename), these .__afsXXXX files are skipped but without
advancing the file position in the dir_context. This leads to
afs_dir_iterate() repeating the block again and again.
Fix this by making the code that skips the .__afsXXXX file also manually
advance the file position.
The symptoms are a soft lookup:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 52s! check:5737]
...
RIP: 0010:afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd
...
? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1a6/0x213
...
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
? afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd
afs_dir_iterate+0x10a/0x148
afs_readdir+0x30/0x4a
iterate_dir+0x93/0xd3
__do_sys_getdents64+0x6b/0xd4
This is almost certainly the actual fix for:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218496
CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2024-26848 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26848)
