ext4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode (Linux Linux)

CVE-2023-53101
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.20 % · percentile 10 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode If the boot loader inode has never been used before, the EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT inode will initialize it, including setting the i_size to 0. However, if the "never before used" boot loader has a non-zero i_size, then i_disksize will be non-zero, and the inconsistency between i_size and i_disksize can trigger a kernel warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2580 at fs/ext4/file.c:319 CPU: 0 PID: 2580 Comm: bb Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00004-g703695902cfa RIP: 0010:ext4_file_write_iter+0xbc7/0xd10 Call Trace: vfs_write+0x3b1/0x5c0 ksys_write+0x77/0x160 __x64_sys_write+0x22/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x39/0x80 Reproducer: 1. create corrupted image and mount it: mke2fs -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 200 debugfs -wR "sif <5> size 25700" /tmp/foo.img mount -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img /mnt cd /mnt echo 123 > file 2. Run the reproducer program: posix_memalign(&buf, 1024, 1024) fd = open("file", O_RDWR | O_DIRECT); ioctl(fd, EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT); write(fd, buf, 1024); Fix this by setting i_disksize as well as i_size to zero when initiaizing the boot loader inode.

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 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 < d6c1447e483c05dbcfb3ff77ac04237a82070b8c ; affected 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 < 59eee0cdf8c036f554add97a4da7c06d7a9ff34a ; affected 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 < 0d8a6c9a6415999fee1259ccf1796480c026b7d6 ; affected 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 < 3f00c476da8fe7c4c34ea16abb55d74127120413 ; affected 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 < 01a821aacc64d4b05dafd239dbc9b7856686002f ; affected 393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5 < 9cb27b1e76f0cc886ac09055bc41c0ab3f205167
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.10 ; unaffected 0 < 3.10 ; unaffected 4.14.310 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.278 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.237 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.175 ≤ 5.10.*

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