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CVE-2022-49688

afs: Fix dynamic root getattr

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Fix
Fixed in 4.19.250, 5.4.202, 5.10.127, 5.15.51, 5.18
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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix dynamic root getattr The recent patch to make afs_getattr consult the server didn't account for the pseudo-inodes employed by the dynamic root-type afs superblock not having a volume or a server to access, and thus an oops occurs if such a directory is stat'd. Fix this by checking to see if the vnode->volume pointer actually points anywhere before following it in afs_getattr(). This can be tested by stat'ing a directory in /afs. It may be sufficient just to do "ls /afs" and the oops looks something like: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 ... RIP: 0010:afs_getattr+0x8b/0x14b ... Call Trace: <TASK> vfs_statx+0x79/0xf5 vfs_fstatat+0x49/0x62

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 4.19.245 · fixed in 4.19.250; From 5.4.196 · fixed in 5.4.202; From 5.10.118 · fixed in 5.10.127; From 5.15.42 · fixed in 5.15.51; From 5.17.10 · fixed in 5.18

  • Linux Linux

    5.18

References 6

git.kernel.org