CVE-2024-26973: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles When fat_encode_fh_nostale() encodes file handle without a parent it stores only first 10 bytes of the file handle. However the length of the file handle must be a multiple of 4 so the file handle is actually 12 bytes long and the last two bytes remain uninitialized. This is not great at we potentially leak uninitialized information with the handle to userspace. Properly initialize the full handle length.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.10, before 4.19.312 (fixed in 4.19.312); from 4.20, before 5.4.274 (fixed in 5.4.274); from 5.5, before 5.10.215 (fixed in 5.10.215); from 5.11, before 5.15.154 (fixed in 5.15.154); from 5.16, before 6.1.84 (fixed in 6.1.84); from 6.2, before 6.6.24 (fixed in 6.6.24); …

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.