CVE-2024-43828

ext4: fix infinite loop when replaying fast_commit

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 17, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Aug 17, 2024

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Description

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

ext4: fix infinite loop when replaying fast_commit

When doing fast_commit replay an infinite loop may occur due to an uninitialized extent_status struct. ext4_ext_determine_insert_hole() does not detect the replay and calls ext4_es_find_extent_range(), which will return immediately without initializing the 'es' variable.

Because 'es' contains garbage, an integer overflow may happen causing an infinite loop in this function, easily reproducible using fstest generic/039.

This commit fixes this issue by unconditionally initializing the structure in function ext4_es_find_extent_range().

Thanks to Zhang Yi, for figuring out the real problem!

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 5ed0496e383cb6de120e56991385dce70bbb87c1Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 0619f7750f2b178a1309808832ab20d85e0ad121Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 181e63cd595c688194e07332f9944b3a63193de2Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before c6e67df64783e99a657ef2b8c834ba2bf54c539cAffected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 81f819c537d29932e4b9267f02411cbc8b355178Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 907c3fe532253a6ef4eb9c4d67efb71fab58c706Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not affected
  • 5.10.224 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.165 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.103 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.44 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.3 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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