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CVE-2024-50015

ext4: dax: fix overflowing extents beyond inode size when partially writing

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.113, 6.6.55, 6.10.14, and 1 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: dax: fix overflowing extents beyond inode size when partially writing The dax_iomap_rw() does two things in each iteration: map written blocks and copy user data to blocks. If the process is killed by user(See signal handling in dax_iomap_iter()), the copied data will be returned and added on inode size, which means that the length of written extents may exceed the inode size, then fsck will fail. An example is given as: dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=4M count=1 dax_iomap_rw iomap_iter // round 1 ext4_iomap_begin ext4_iomap_alloc // allocate 0~2M extents(written flag) dax_iomap_iter // copy 2M data iomap_iter // round 2 iomap_iter_advance iter->pos += iter->processed // iter->pos = 2M ext4_iomap_begin ext4_iomap_alloc // allocate 2~4M extents(written flag) dax_iomap_iter fatal_signal_pending done = iter->pos - iocb->ki_pos // done = 2M ext4_handle_inode_extension ext4_update_inode_size // inode size = 2M fsck reports: Inode 13, i_size is 2097152, should be 4194304. Fix? Fix the problem by truncating extents if the written length is smaller than expected.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba · fixed in f8a7c342326f6ad1dfdb30a18dd013c70f5e9669; From 776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba · fixed in 8c30a9a8610c314554997f86370140746aa35661; From 776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba · fixed in abfaa876b948baaea4d14f21a1963789845c8b4c; From 776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba · fixed in 5efccdee4a7d507a483f20f880b809cc4eaef14d; From 776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba · fixed in a9f331f51515bdb3ebc8d0963131af367ef468f6; From 776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba · fixed in ec0dd451e236c46e4858d53e9e82bae7797a7af5; From 776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba · fixed in dda898d7ffe85931f9cca6d702a51f33717c501e

  • Linux Linux

    4.10

  • KernelLinux

    From 4.10.0 · fixed in 5.10.227; From 5.11.0 · fixed in 5.15.168; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.1.113; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.55; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.10.14; From 6.11.0 · fixed in 6.11.3

References 7

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