Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 3.18.97 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to clear dirty inode in f2fs_evict_inode()
As Yanming reported in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215904
The kernel message is shown below:
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/inode.c:825!
Call Trace:
evict+0x282/0x4e0
__dentry_kill+0x2b2/0x4d0
shrink_dentry_list+0x17c/0x4f0
shrink_dcache_parent+0x143/0x1e0
do_one_tree+0x9/0x30
shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x51/0x120
generic_shutdown_super+0x5c/0x3a0
kill_block_super+0x90/0xd0
kill_f2fs_super+0x225/0x310
deactivate_locked_super+0x78/0xc0
cleanup_mnt+0x2b7/0x480
task_work_run+0xc8/0x150
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x14a/0x150
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90
The root cause is: inode node and dnode node share the same nid,
so during f2fs_evict_inode(), dnode node truncation will invalidate
its NAT entry, so when truncating inode node, it fails due to
invalid NAT entry, result in inode is still marked as dirty, fix
this issue by clearing dirty for inode and setting SBI_NEED_FSCK
flag in filesystem.
output from dump.f2fs:
[print_node_info: 354] Node ID [0xf:15] is inode
i_nid[0] [0x f : 15]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle
kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()
If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
Fix this issue by calling kobject_put().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context
Laurent reported the enclosed report [1]
This bug triggers with following coditions:
0) Kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
1) A new passive FastOpen TCP socket is created.
This FO socket waits for an ACK coming from client to be a complete
ESTABLISHED one.
2) A socket operation on this socket goes through lock_sock()
release_sock() dance.
3) While the socket is owned by the user in step 2),
a retransmit of the SYN is received and stored in socket backlog.
4) At release_sock() time, the socket backlog is processed while
in process context.
5) A SYNACK packet is cooked in response of the SYN retransmit.
6) -> tcp_rtx_synack() is called in process context.
Before blamed commit, tcp_rtx_synack() was always called from BH handler,
from a timer handler.
Fix this by using TCP_INC_STATS() & NET_INC_STATS()
which do not assume caller is in non preemptible context.
[1]
BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: epollpep/2180
caller is tcp_rtx_synack.part.0+0x36/0xc0
CPU: 10 PID: 2180 Comm: epollpep Tainted: G OE 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 Debian 5.16.12-1~bpo11+1
Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-5039MC-H8TRF/X11SCD-F, BIOS 1.7 11/23/2021
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x5e
check_preemption_disabled+0xde/0xe0
tcp_rtx_synack.part.0+0x36/0xc0
tcp_rtx_synack+0x8d/0xa0
? kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e0/0x3e0
? apparmor_file_alloc_security+0x3b/0x1f0
inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x16/0x30
tcp_check_req+0x367/0x610
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x91/0xf60
? get_nohz_timer_target+0x18/0x1a0
? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80
? preempt_count_add+0x68/0xa0
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xbd/0x270
__release_sock+0x6d/0xb0
release_sock+0x2b/0x90
sock_setsockopt+0x138/0x1140
? __sys_getsockname+0x7e/0xc0
? aa_sk_perm+0x3e/0x1a0
__sys_setsockopt+0x198/0x1e0
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0x21/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x38/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: pata_octeon_cf: Fix refcount leak in octeon_cf_probe
of_find_device_by_node() takes reference, we should use put_device()
to release it when not need anymore.
Add missing put_device() to avoid refcount leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on total_data_blocks
As Yanming reported in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215916
The kernel message is shown below:
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2560!
Call Trace:
allocate_segment_by_default+0x228/0x440
f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x13d1/0x31f0
do_write_page+0x18d/0x710
f2fs_outplace_write_data+0x151/0x250
f2fs_do_write_data_page+0xef9/0x1980
move_data_page+0x6af/0xbc0
do_garbage_collect+0x312f/0x46f0
f2fs_gc+0x6b0/0x3bc0
f2fs_balance_fs+0x921/0x2260
f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x16be/0x2370
f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x428/0xd00
f2fs_write_data_pages+0x96e/0xd50
do_writepages+0x168/0x550
__writeback_single_inode+0x9f/0x870
writeback_sb_inodes+0x47d/0xb20
__writeback_inodes_wb+0xb2/0x200
wb_writeback+0x4bd/0x660
wb_workfn+0x5f3/0xab0
process_one_work+0x79f/0x13e0
worker_thread+0x89/0xf60
kthread+0x26a/0x300
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0xe8d/0x15f0
The root cause is: ckpt.valid_block_count is inconsistent with SIT table,
stat info indicates filesystem has free blocks, but SIT table indicates
filesystem has no free segment.
So that during garbage colloection, it triggers panic when LFS allocator
fails to find free segment.
This patch tries to fix this issue by checking consistency in between
ckpt.valid_block_count and block accounted from SIT.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check for inline inode
Yanming reported a kernel bug in Bugzilla kernel [1], which can be
reproduced. The bug message is:
The kernel message is shown below:
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:611!
Call Trace:
evict+0x282/0x4e0
__dentry_kill+0x2b2/0x4d0
dput+0x2dd/0x720
do_renameat2+0x596/0x970
__x64_sys_rename+0x78/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215895
The bug is due to fuzzed inode has both inline_data and encrypted flags.
During f2fs_evict_inode(), as the inode was deleted by rename(), it
will cause inline data conversion due to conflicting flags. The page
cache will be polluted and the panic will be triggered in clear_inode().
Try fixing the bug by doing more sanity checks for inline data inode in
sanity_check_inode().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
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.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
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.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
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.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
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)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26