CVE-2022-49348

ext4: filter out EXT4_FC_REPLAY from on-disk superblock field s_state

MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 21 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: filter out EXT4_FC_REPLAY from on-disk superblock field s_state The EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit in sbi->s_mount_state is used to indicate that we are in the middle of replay the fast commit journal. This was actually a mistake, since the sbi->s_mount_info is initialized from es->s_state. Arguably s_mount_state is misleadingly named, but the name is historical --- s_mount_state and s_state dates back to ext2. What should have been used is the ext4_{set,clear,test}_mount_flag() inline functions, which sets EXT4_MF_* bits in sbi->s_mount_flags. The problem with using EXT4_FC_REPLAY is that a maliciously corrupted superblock could result in EXT4_FC_REPLAY getting set in s_mount_state. This bypasses some sanity checks, and this can trigger a BUG() in ext4_es_cache_extent(). As a easy-to-backport-fix, filter out the EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit for now. We should eventually transition away from EXT4_FC_REPLAY to something like EXT4_MF_REPLAY.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
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)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 < cc5b09cb6dacd4b32640537929ab4ee8fb2b9e04 ; affected 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 < b99fd73418350dea360da8311e87a6a7b0e15a4c ; affected 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 < af2f1932743fb52ebcb008ad7ac500d9df0aa796 ; affected 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 < 55b4dbb29054a05d839562f6d635ce05669b016d ; affected 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 < c878bea3c9d724ddfa05a813f30de3d25a0ba83f
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.10 ; unaffected 0 < 5.10 ; unaffected 5.10.121 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.46 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 5.17.14 ≤ 5.17.* ; unaffected 5.18.3 ≤ 5.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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