CVE-2022-49993

loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2025

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Description

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

loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop

The userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call, wherein a configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()'s case on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call loop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info() (see line 1050 of loop.c), passing &config->info which is of type loop_info64*. This function then sets the appropriate values, like the offset.

loop_device has lo_offset of type loff_t (see line 52 of loop.c), which is typdef-chained to long long, whereas loop_info64 has lo_offset of type __u64 (see line 56 of include/uapi/linux/loop.h).

The function directly copies offset from info to the device as follows (See line 980 of loop.c): lo->lo_offset = info->lo_offset;

This results in an overflow, which triggers a warning in iomap_iter() due to a call to iomap_iter_done() which has: WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->iomap.offset > iter->pos);

Thus, check for negative value during loop_set_status_from_info().

Bug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c620fe14aac810396d3c3edc9ad73848bf69a29e

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 18e28817cb516b39de6281f6db9b0618b2cc7b42Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before adf0112d9b8acb03485624220b4934f69bf13369Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before a217715338fd48f72114725aa7a40e484a781ca7Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b40877b8562c5720d0a7fce20729f56b75a3dedeAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 6858933131d0dadac071c4d33335a9ea4b8e76cfAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 0455bef69028c65065f16bb04635591b2374249bAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 9be7fa7ead18a48940df7b59d993bbc8b9055c15Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before c490a0b5a4f36da3918181a8acdc6991d967c5f3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 4.9.327 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.292 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.312 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.274 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.140 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.64 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.6 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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