CVE-2025-37858

fs/jfs: Prevent integer overflow in AG size calculation

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 9, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

fs/jfs: Prevent integer overflow in AG size calculation

The JFS filesystem calculates allocation group (AG) size using 1 << l2agsize in dbExtendFS(). When l2agsize exceeds 31 (possible with >2TB aggregates on 32-bit systems), this 32-bit shift operation causes undefined behavior and improper AG sizing.

On 32-bit architectures: - Left-shifting 1 by 32+ bits results in 0 due to integer overflow - This creates invalid AG sizes (0 or garbage values) in sbi->bmap->db_agsize - Subsequent block allocations would reference invalid AG structures - Could lead to: - Filesystem corruption during extend operations - Kernel crashes due to invalid memory accesses - Security vulnerabilities via malformed on-disk structures

Fix by casting to s64 before shifting: bmp->db_agsize = (s64)1 << l2agsize;

This ensures 64-bit arithmetic even on 32-bit architectures. The cast matches the data type of db_agsize (s64) and follows similar patterns in JFS block calculation code.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before dd07a985e2ded47b6c7d69fc93c1fe02977c8454Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 8bb29629a5e4090e1ef7199cb42db04a52802239Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 3d8a45f87010a802aa214bf39702ca9d99cbf3baAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 55edbf5dbf60a8195c21e92124c4028939ae16b2Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7ccf3b35274512b60ecb614e0637e76bd6f2d829Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before c802a6a4009f585111f903e810b3be9c6d0da329Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 211ed8f5e39e61f9e4d18edd64ce8005a67a1b2aAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ec34cdf4f917cc6abd306cf091f8b8361fedac88Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7fcbf789629cdb9fbf4e2172ce31136cfed11e5eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 5.4.293 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.237 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.181 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.135 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.88 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.24 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.12 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14.3 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

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