Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In February 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on block address in f2fs_do_zero_range()
As Yanming reported in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215894
I have encountered a bug in F2FS file system in kernel v5.17.
I have uploaded the system call sequence as case.c, and a fuzzed image can
be found in google net disk
The kernel should enable CONFIG_KASAN=y and CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y. You can
reproduce the bug by running the following commands:
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2291!
Call Trace:
f2fs_invalidate_blocks+0x193/0x2d0
f2fs_fallocate+0x2593/0x4a70
vfs_fallocate+0x2a5/0xac0
ksys_fallocate+0x35/0x70
__x64_sys_fallocate+0x8e/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
The root cause is, after image was fuzzed, block mapping info in inode
will be inconsistent with SIT table, so in f2fs_fallocate(), it will cause
panic when updating SIT with invalid blkaddr.
Let's fix the issue by adding sanity check on block address before updating
SIT table with it.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: avoid cycles in directory h-tree
A maliciously corrupted filesystem can contain cycles in the h-tree
stored inside a directory. That can easily lead to the kernel corrupting
tree nodes that were already verified under its hands while doing a node
split and consequently accessing unallocated memory. Fix the problem by
verifying traversed block numbers are unique.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Fix a data-race in unix_dgram_peer_wake_me().
unix_dgram_poll() calls unix_dgram_peer_wake_me() without `other`'s
lock held and check if its receive queue is full. Here we need to
use unix_recvq_full_lockless() instead of unix_recvq_full(), otherwise
KCSAN will report a data-race.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()
EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot
use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up
with kernel panic.
modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.
Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this
showed up in linux-next builds.
There are two ways to fix it:
- Remove __init
- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL
I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,
net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_XFRM is boolean)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: Fix refcount leak in gswip_gphy_fw_list
Every iteration of for_each_available_child_of_node() decrements
the reference count of the previous node.
when breaking early from a for_each_available_child_of_node() loop,
we need to explicitly call of_node_put() on the gphy_fw_np.
Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix bug_on in ext4_writepages
we got issue as follows:
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:1141: group 0, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 25 vs 31513 free cls
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:2708!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 2 PID: 2147 Comm: rep Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2-next-20220413+ #155
RIP: 0010:ext4_writepages+0x1977/0x1c10
RSP: 0018:ffff88811d3e7880 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88811c098000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88811c098000 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: ffff888128140f50 R08: ffffffffb1ff6387 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000007 R11: ffffed10250281ea R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00000000000000a4 R14: ffff88811d3e7bb8 R15: ffff888128141028
FS: 00007f443aed9740(0000) GS:ffff8883aef00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020007200 CR3: 000000011c2a4000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
do_writepages+0x130/0x3a0
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x83/0xa0
filemap_flush+0xab/0xe0
ext4_alloc_da_blocks+0x51/0x120
__ext4_ioctl+0x1534/0x3210
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x12c/0x170
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
It may happen as follows:
1. write inline_data inode
vfs_write
new_sync_write
ext4_file_write_iter
ext4_buffered_write_iter
generic_perform_write
ext4_da_write_begin
ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin -> If inline data size too
small will allocate block to write, then mapping will has
dirty page
ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent ->clear EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA
2. fallocate
do_vfs_ioctl
ioctl_preallocate
vfs_fallocate
ext4_fallocate
ext4_convert_inline_data
ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
ext4_map_blocks -> fail will goto restore data
ext4_restore_inline_data
ext4_create_inline_data
ext4_write_inline_data
ext4_set_inode_state -> set inode EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA
3. writepages
__ext4_ioctl
ext4_alloc_da_blocks
filemap_flush
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc
do_writepages
ext4_writepages
if (ext4_has_inline_data(inode))
BUG_ON(ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA))
The root cause of this issue is we destory inline data until call
ext4_writepages under delay allocation mode. But there maybe already
convert from inline to extent. To solve this issue, we call
filemap_flush first..
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.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_rename_dir_prepare
We got issue as follows:
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: ,errors=continue
ext4_get_first_dir_block: bh->b_data=0xffff88810bee6000 len=34478
ext4_get_first_dir_block: *parent_de=0xffff88810beee6ae bh->b_data=0xffff88810bee6000
ext4_rename_dir_prepare: [1] parent_de=0xffff88810beee6ae
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_rename_dir_prepare+0x152/0x220
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810beee6ae by task rep/1895
CPU: 13 PID: 1895 Comm: rep Not tainted 5.10.0+ #241
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xbe/0xf9
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1e/0x220
kasan_report.cold+0x37/0x7f
ext4_rename_dir_prepare+0x152/0x220
ext4_rename+0xf44/0x1ad0
ext4_rename2+0x11c/0x170
vfs_rename+0xa84/0x1440
do_renameat2+0x683/0x8f0
__x64_sys_renameat+0x53/0x60
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
RIP: 0033:0x7f45a6fc41c9
RSP: 002b:00007ffc5a470218 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000108
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f45a6fc41c9
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: 0000000020000180 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007ffc5a470240 R08: 00007ffc5a470160 R09: 0000000020000080
R10: 00000000200001c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400bb0
R13: 00007ffc5a470320 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:00000000440015ce refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x10beee
flags: 0x200000000000000()
raw: 0200000000000000 ffffea00043ff4c8 ffffea0004325608 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88810beee580: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff88810beee600: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88810beee680: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
^
ffff88810beee700: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff88810beee780: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
ext4_rename_dir_prepare: [2] parent_de->inode=3537895424
ext4_rename_dir_prepare: [3] dir=0xffff888124170140
ext4_rename_dir_prepare: [4] ino=2
ext4_rename_dir_prepare: ent->dir->i_ino=2 parent=-757071872
Reason is first directory entry which 'rec_len' is 34478, then will get illegal
parent entry. Now, we do not check directory entry after read directory block
in 'ext4_get_first_dir_block'.
To solve this issue, check directory entry in 'ext4_get_first_dir_block'.
[ Trigger an ext4_error() instead of just warning if the directory is
missing a '.' or '..' entry. Also make sure we return an error code
if the file system is corrupted. -TYT ]
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()
EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot
use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up
with kernel panic.
modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.
Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this
showed up in linux-next builds.
There are two ways to fix it:
- Remove __init
- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL
I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_PHYLIB is boolean)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: altera: Fix refcount leak in altera_tse_mdio_create
Every iteration of for_each_child_of_node() decrements
the reference count of the previous node.
When break from a for_each_child_of_node() loop,
we need to explicitly call of_node_put() on the child node when
not need anymore.
Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.