CVE-2024-47701

ext4: avoid OOB when system.data xattr changes underneath the filesystem

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Sep 30, 2024

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Description

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

ext4: avoid OOB when system.data xattr changes underneath the filesystem

When looking up for an entry in an inlined directory, if e_value_offs is changed underneath the filesystem by some change in the block device, it will lead to an out-of-bounds access that KASAN detects as an UAF.

EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 r/w without journal. Quota mode: none. loop0: detected capacity change from 2048 to 2047 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_search_dir+0xf2/0x1c0 fs/ext4/namei.c:1500 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88803e91130f by task syz-executor269/5103

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5103 Comm: syz-executor269 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:93 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:119 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline] print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601 ext4_search_dir+0xf2/0x1c0 fs/ext4/namei.c:1500 ext4_find_inline_entry+0x4be/0x5e0 fs/ext4/inline.c:1697 __ext4_find_entry+0x2b4/0x1b30 fs/ext4/namei.c:1573 ext4_lookup_entry fs/ext4/namei.c:1727 [inline] ext4_lookup+0x15f/0x750 fs/ext4/namei.c:1795 lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x11f/0x260 fs/namei.c:1633 filename_create+0x297/0x540 fs/namei.c:3980 do_symlinkat+0xf9/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4587 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4610 [inline] __se_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4607 [inline] __x64_sys_symlinkat+0x95/0xb0 fs/namei.c:4607 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f3e73ced469 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 21 18 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007fff4d40c258 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000010a RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0032656c69662f2e RCX: 00007f3e73ced469 RDX: 0000000020000200 RSI: 00000000ffffff9c RDI: 00000000200001c0 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007fff4d40c290 R09: 00007fff4d40c290 R10: 0023706f6f6c2f76 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff4d40c27c R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 431bde82d7b634db R15: 00007fff4d40c2b0 </TASK>

Calling ext4_xattr_ibody_find right after reading the inode with ext4_get_inode_loc will lead to a check of the validity of the xattrs, avoiding this problem.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before 5b076d37e8d99918e9294bd6b35a8bbb436819b0Affected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before 8adf0eb4e361a9e060d54f4bd0ac9c5d85277d20Affected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before 7fc22c3b3ffc0e952f5e0062dd11aa6ae76affbaAffected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before be2e9b111e2790962cc66a177869b4e9717b4e29Affected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before ea32883e4a03ed575a2eb7a66542022312bde477Affected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before 2a6579ef5f2576a940125729f7409cc182f1c8dfAffected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before 371d0bacecd529f887ea2547333d9173e7bcdc0aAffected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before ccb8c18076e2e630fea23fbec583cdad61787fc5Affected
  • e8e948e7802a2ab05c146d3e72a39b93b5718236 to before c6b72f5d82b1017bad80f9ebf502832fc321d796Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.8Affected
  • before 3.8Not affected
  • 4.19.323 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.285 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.227 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.168 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.113 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.54 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.13 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11.2 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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