ext4: don't BUG if someone dirty pages without asking ext4 first (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49171
MEDIUM 5.5

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · centile 20 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: don't BUG if someone dirty pages without asking ext4 first [un]pin_user_pages_remote is dirtying pages without properly warning the file system in advance. A related race was noted by Jan Kara in 2018[1]; however, more recently instead of it being a very hard-to-hit race, it could be reliably triggered by process_vm_writev(2) which was discovered by Syzbot[2]. This is technically a bug in mm/gup.c, but arguably ext4 is fragile in that if some other kernel subsystem dirty pages without properly notifying the file system using page_mkwrite(), ext4 will BUG, while other file systems will not BUG (although data will still be lost). So instead of crashing with a BUG, issue a warning (since there may be potential data loss) and just mark the page as clean to avoid unprivileged denial of service attacks until the problem can be properly fixed. More discussion and background can be found in the thread starting at [2]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yg0m6IjcNmfaSokM@google.com

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-617 — Assertion atteignable

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected a42afc5f56f319107e987aa6adf2f65d93d527c7 < 5db60e76edf5680ff1f3a7221036fc44b308f146 ; affected a42afc5f56f319107e987aa6adf2f65d93d527c7 < d666dfaa571465a19f014534a214c255ea33f301 ; affected a42afc5f56f319107e987aa6adf2f65d93d527c7 < 0d3a6926f7e8be3c897fa46216ce13b119a9f56a ; affected a42afc5f56f319107e987aa6adf2f65d93d527c7 < 5a016c053f426a73752c3b41b60b497b58694d48 ; affected a42afc5f56f319107e987aa6adf2f65d93d527c7 < 330d0e44fc5a47c27df958ecdd4693a3cb1d8b81 ; affected a42afc5f56f319107e987aa6adf2f65d93d527c7 < a0856764dc1276ad2dc7891288c2e9246bf11a37
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.37 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.37 ; unaffected 4.9.311 ≤ 4.9.* ; unaffected 4.14.276 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.238 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.189 ≤ 5.4.*

Sources

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