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Unreviewed Published Apr 28, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 28, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix bug in extents parsing when eh_entries == 0 and eh_depth > 0

When walking through an inode extents, the ext4_ext_binsearch_idx() function
assumes that the extent header has been previously validated. However, there
are no checks that verify that the number of entries (eh->eh_entries) is
non-zero when depth is > 0. And this will lead to problems because the
EXT_FIRST_INDEX() and EXT_LAST_INDEX() will return garbage and result in this:

[ 135.245946] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 135.247579] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents.c:2258!
[ 135.249045] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 135.250320] CPU: 2 PID: 238 Comm: tmp118 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8+ #4
[ 135.252067] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
[ 135.255065] RIP: 0010:ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xc20/0xcb0
[ 135.256475] Code:
[ 135.261433] RSP: 0018:ffffc900005939f8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 135.262847] RAX: 0000000000000024 RBX: ffffc90000593b70 RCX: 0000000000000023
[ 135.264765] RDX: ffff8880038e5f10 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff8880046e922c
[ 135.266670] RBP: ffff8880046e9348 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff888002ca580c
[ 135.268576] R10: 0000000000002602 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000024
[ 135.270477] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000024 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 135.272394] FS: 00007fdabdc56740(0000) GS:ffff88807dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 135.274510] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 135.276075] CR2: 00007ffc26bd4f00 CR3: 0000000006261004 CR4: 0000000000170ea0
[ 135.277952] Call Trace:
[ 135.278635]
[ 135.279247] ? preempt_count_add+0x6d/0xa0
[ 135.280358] ? percpu_counter_add_batch+0x55/0xb0
[ 135.281612] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x18/0x30
[ 135.282704] ext4_map_blocks+0x294/0x5a0
[ 135.283745] ? xa_load+0x6f/0xa0
[ 135.284562] ext4_mpage_readpages+0x3d6/0x770
[ 135.285646] read_pages+0x67/0x1d0
[ 135.286492] ? folio_add_lru+0x51/0x80
[ 135.287441] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x124/0x170
[ 135.288510] filemap_get_pages+0x23d/0x5a0
[ 135.289457] ? path_openat+0xa72/0xdd0
[ 135.290332] filemap_read+0xbf/0x300
[ 135.291158] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x17/0x40
[ 135.292192] new_sync_read+0x103/0x170
[ 135.293014] vfs_read+0x15d/0x180
[ 135.293745] ksys_read+0xa1/0xe0
[ 135.294461] do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80
[ 135.295284] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

This patch simply adds an extra check in __ext4_ext_check(), verifying that
eh_entries is not 0 when eh_depth is > 0.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 28, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 28, 2024
Last updated Apr 28, 2024

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2022-48631

GHSA ID

GHSA-9r47-mqc5-7vfp

Source code

No known source code

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