NFSD: Fix READDIR buffer overflow (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47107
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.85 % · percentile 58 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Fix READDIR buffer overflow If a client sends a READDIR count argument that is too small (say, zero), then the buffer size calculation in the new init_dirlist helper functions results in an underflow, allowing the XDR stream functions to write beyond the actual buffer. This calculation has always been suspect. NFSD has never sanity- checked the READDIR count argument, but the old entry encoders managed the problem correctly. With the commits below, entry encoding changed, exposing the underflow to the pointer arithmetic in xdr_reserve_space(). Modern NFS clients attempt to retrieve as much data as possible for each READDIR request. Also, we have no unit tests that exercise the behavior of READDIR at the lower bound of @count values. Thus this case was missed during testing.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 37aa5e64022243e721b8334122997881177a4cfc < 9e291a6a28d32545ed2fd959a8165144d1724df1 ; affected 7f87fc2d34d475225e78b7f5c4eabb121f4282b2 < eabc0aab98e5218ceecd82069b0d6fdfff5ee885 ; affected 7f87fc2d34d475225e78b7f5c4eabb121f4282b2 < 53b1119a6e5028b125f431a0116ba73510d82a72
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.13 ; unaffected 0 < 5.13 ; unaffected 5.15.12 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 5.16 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD