Reference page — cumulative record through Monday, October 19, 2026 UTC. Reference pages update as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record.
CVE-2024-35807
Linux Linux — ext4: fix corruption during on-line resize
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0027 18.0 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 01f795f9e0d67adeccc61a8b20c28acb45fa5fd8 – —
Linux 3.7 – 4.19.312
TIMELINE
May 17 Reserved by Linux
May 17 Published (CNA: Linux)
Oct 15 ENRICHED — CVE-2024-35807 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix corruption during on-line resize
We observed a corruption during on-line resize of a file system that is
larger than 16 TiB with 4k block size. With having more then 2^32 blocks
resize_inode is turned off by default by mke2fs. The issue can be
reproduced on a smaller file system for convenience by explicitly
turning off resize_inode. An on-line resize across an 8 GiB boundary (the
size of a meta block group in this setup) then leads to a corruption:
dev=/dev/<some_dev> # should be >= 16 GiB
mkdir -p /corruption
/sbin/mke2fs -t ext4 -b 4096 -O ^resize_inode $dev $((2 * 2**21 - 2**15))
mount -t ext4 $dev /corruption
dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 of=/corruption/test count=$((2*2**21 - 4*2**15))
sha1sum /corruption/test
# 79d2658b39dcfd77274e435b0934028adafaab11 /corruption/test
/sbin/resize2fs $dev $((2*2**21))
# drop page cache to force reload the block from disk
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
sha1sum /corruption/test
# 3c2abc63cbf1a94c9e6977e0fbd72cd832c4d5c3 /corruption/test
2^21 = 2^15*2^6 equals 8 GiB whereof 2^15 is the number of blocks per
block group and 2^6 are the number of block groups that make a meta
block group.
The last checksum might be different depending on how the file is laid
out across the physical blocks. The actual corruption occurs at physical
block 63*2^15 = 2064384 which would be the location of the backup of the
meta block group's block descriptor. During the on-line resize the file
system will be converted to meta_bg starting at s_first_meta_bg which is
2 in the example - meaning all block groups after 16 GiB. However, in
ext4_flex_group_add we might add block groups that are not part of the
first meta block group yet. In the reproducer we achieved this by
substracting the size of a whole block group from the point where the
meta block group would start. This must be considered when updating the
backup block group descriptors to follow the non-meta_bg layout. The fix
is to add a test whether the group to add is already part of the meta
block group or not.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| May 17, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| May 17, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| October 15, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2024-35807 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 01f795f9e0d67adeccc61a8b20c28acb45fa5fd8 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 3.7 | 4.19.312 |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2024-35807 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Monday, October 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.