CVE-2024-56598: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: array-index-out-of-bounds fix in dtReadFirst The value of stbl can be sometimes out of bounds due to a bad filesystem. Added a check with appopriate return of error code in that case.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.287 (fixed in 5.4.287); from 5.5, before 5.10.231 (fixed in 5.10.231); from 5.11, before 5.15.174 (fixed in 5.15.174); from 5.16, before 6.1.120 (fixed in 6.1.120); from 6.2, before 6.6.66 (fixed in 6.6.66); from 6.7, before 6.12.5 (fixed in 6.12.5)

Published 2024-12-27. Last modified 2026-08-04.