ext4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-40190
HIGH 7.8

En bref

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · centile 7 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
Attribuée par
Linux
Statut NVD
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update syzkaller found a path where ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref() reads an EA inode refcount that is already <= 0 and then applies ref_change (often -1). That lets the refcount underflow and we proceed with a bogus value, triggering errors like: EXT4-fs error: EA inode <n> ref underflow: ref_count=-1 ref_change=-1 EXT4-fs warning: ea_inode dec ref err=-117 Make the invariant explicit: if the current refcount is non-positive, treat this as on-disk corruption, emit ext4_error_inode(), and fail the operation with -EFSCORRUPTED instead of updating the refcount. Delete the WARN_ONCE() as negative refcounts are now impossible; keep error reporting in ext4_error_inode(). This prevents the underflow and the follow-on orphan/cleanup churn.

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < ea39e712c2f5ae148ee5515798ae03523673e002 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 1cfb3e4ddbdc8e02e637b8852540bd4718bf4814 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 505e69f76ac497e788f4ea0267826ec7266b40c8 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 3d6269028246f4484bfed403c947a114bb583631 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 79ea7f3e11effe1bd9e753172981d9029133a278 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 6b879c4c6bbaab03c0ad2a983953bd1410bb165e
Linux · Linuxunaffected 5.4.301 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.246 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.195 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.157 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.113 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.54 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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