CVE-2025-68285

libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map()

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 16, 2025

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Description

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

libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map()

The wait loop in __ceph_open_session() can race with the client receiving a new monmap or osdmap shortly after the initial map is received. Both ceph_monc_handle_map() and handle_one_map() install a new map immediately after freeing the old one

kfree(monc->monmap); monc->monmap = monmap;

ceph_osdmap_destroy(osdc->osdmap); osdc->osdmap = newmap;

under client->monc.mutex and client->osdc.lock respectively, but because neither is taken in have_mon_and_osd_map() it's possible for client->monc.monmap->epoch and client->osdc.osdmap->epoch arms in

client->monc.monmap && client->monc.monmap->epoch && client->osdc.osdmap && client->osdc.osdmap->epoch;

condition to dereference an already freed map. This happens to be reproducible with generic/395 and generic/397 with KASAN enabled:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map+0x56/0x70 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811012d810 by task mount.ceph/13305 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 13305 Comm: mount.ceph Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2-build2+ #1266 ... Call Trace: <TASK> have_mon_and_osd_map+0x56/0x70 ceph_open_session+0x182/0x290 ceph_get_tree+0x333/0x680 vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x180 do_new_mount+0x1a3/0x2d0 path_mount+0x6dd/0x730 do_mount+0x99/0xe0 __do_sys_mount+0x141/0x180 do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e </TASK>

Allocated by task 13305: ceph_osdmap_alloc+0x16/0x130 ceph_osdc_init+0x27a/0x4c0 ceph_create_client+0x153/0x190 create_fs_client+0x50/0x2a0 ceph_get_tree+0xff/0x680 vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x180 do_new_mount+0x1a3/0x2d0 path_mount+0x6dd/0x730 do_mount+0x99/0xe0 __do_sys_mount+0x141/0x180 do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Freed by task 9475: kfree+0x212/0x290 handle_one_map+0x23c/0x3b0 ceph_osdc_handle_map+0x3c9/0x590 mon_dispatch+0x655/0x6f0 ceph_con_process_message+0xc3/0xe0 ceph_con_v1_try_read+0x614/0x760 ceph_con_workfn+0x2de/0x650 process_one_work+0x486/0x7c0 process_scheduled_works+0x73/0x90 worker_thread+0x1c8/0x2a0 kthread+0x2ec/0x300 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Rewrite the wait loop to check the above condition directly with client->monc.mutex and client->osdc.lock taken as appropriate. While at it, improve the timeout handling (previously mount_timeout could be exceeded in case wait_event_interruptible_timeout() slept more than once) and access client->auth_err under client->monc.mutex to match how it's set in finish_auth().

monmap_show() and osdmap_show() now take the respective lock before accessing the map as well.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5 to before bb4910c5fd436701faf367e1b5476a5a6d2aff1cAffected
  • 6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5 to before 05ec43e9a9de67132dc8cd3b22afef001574947fAffected
  • 6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5 to before 7c8ccdc1714d9fabecd26e1be7db1771061acc6eAffected
  • 6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5 to before 183ad6e3b651e8fb0b66d6a2678f4b80bfbba092Affected
  • 6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5 to before e08021b3b56b2407f37b5fe47b654be80cc665fbAffected
  • 6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5 to before 3fc43120b22a3d4f1fbeff56a35ce2105b6a5683Affected
  • 6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5 to before 076381c261374c587700b3accf410bdd2dba334eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.35Affected
  • before 2.6.35Not affected
  • 5.10.247 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.197 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.159 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.119 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.61 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.11 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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