CVE-2024-44938: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.6.47 (fixed in 6.6.47); from 6.7, before 6.10.6 (fixed in 6.10.6)

Published 2024-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.