Security Advisory

CVE-2024-44938

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-08-26 11:20:43
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:32:22
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.