5.5

CVE-2022-50344

ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info

I caught a null-ptr-deref bug as follows:
==================================================================
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f]
CPU: 1 PID: 1589 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.10.0-02219-dirty #339
RIP: 0010:ext4_write_info+0x53/0x1b0
[...]
Call Trace:
 dquot_writeback_dquots+0x341/0x9a0
 ext4_sync_fs+0x19e/0x800
 __sync_filesystem+0x83/0x100
 sync_filesystem+0x89/0xf0
 generic_shutdown_super+0x79/0x3e0
 kill_block_super+0xa1/0x110
 deactivate_locked_super+0xac/0x130
 deactivate_super+0xb6/0xd0
 cleanup_mnt+0x289/0x400
 __cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20
 task_work_run+0x11c/0x1c0
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x203/0x210
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x5b/0x3a0
 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x70
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
 ==================================================================

Above issue may happen as follows:
-------------------------------------
exit_to_user_mode_prepare
 task_work_run
  __cleanup_mnt
   cleanup_mnt
    deactivate_super
     deactivate_locked_super
      kill_block_super
       generic_shutdown_super
        shrink_dcache_for_umount
         dentry = sb->s_root
         sb->s_root = NULL              <--- Here set NULL
        sync_filesystem
         __sync_filesystem
          sb->s_op->sync_fs > ext4_sync_fs
           dquot_writeback_dquots
            sb->dq_op->write_info > ext4_write_info
             ext4_journal_start(d_inode(sb->s_root), EXT4_HT_QUOTA, 2)
              d_inode(sb->s_root)
               s_root->d_inode          <--- Null pointer dereference

To solve this problem, we use ext4_journal_start_sb directly
to avoid s_root being used.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version < 4.9.331
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.10 < 4.14.296
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.15 < 4.19.262
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.4.220
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.150
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.75
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 5.19.17
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.0 < 6.0.3
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.