CVE-2024-49996

cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points

State
Published
Severity
9.4 Critical
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

cifs: Fix buffer overflow when parsing NFS reparse points

ReparseDataLength is sum of the InodeType size and DataBuffer size. So to get DataBuffer size it is needed to subtract InodeType's size from ReparseDataLength.

Function cifs_strndup_from_utf16() is currentlly accessing buf->DataBuffer at position after the end of the buffer because it does not subtract InodeType size from the length. Fix this problem and correctly subtract variable len.

Member InodeType is present only when reparse buffer is large enough. Check for ReparseDataLength before accessing InodeType to prevent another invalid memory access.

Major and minor rdev values are present also only when reparse buffer is large enough. Check for reparse buffer size before calling reparse_mkdev().

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before 7b222d6cb87077faf56a687a72af1951cf78c8a9Affected
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before 73b078e3314d4854fd8286f3ba65c860ddd3a3ddAffected
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before 01cdddde39b065074fd48f07027757783cbf5b7dAffected
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before ec79e6170bcae8a6036a4b6960f5e7e59a785601Affected
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before c6db81c550cea0c73bd72ef55f579991e0e4ba07Affected
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before 803b3a39cb096d8718c0aebc03fd19f11c7dc919Affected
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before c173d47b69f07cd7ca08efb4e458adbd4725d8e9Affected
  • d5ecebc4900df7f6e8dff0717574668885110553 to before e2a8910af01653c1c268984855629d71fb81f404Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.3Affected
  • before 5.3Not affected
  • 5.4.287 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.231 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.174 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.120 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.55 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.14 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11.3 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

References

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