7.8

CVE-2023-53537

f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio

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

f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio

xfstest generic/019 reports a bug:

kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1619!
RIP: 0010:folio_end_writeback+0x8a/0x90
Call Trace:
 end_page_writeback+0x1c/0x60
 f2fs_write_end_io+0x199/0x420
 bio_endio+0x104/0x180
 submit_bio_noacct+0xa5/0x510
 submit_bio+0x48/0x80
 f2fs_submit_write_bio+0x35/0x300
 f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write+0x2a0/0x2b0
 f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x838/0x8b0
 f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x379/0xa30
 f2fs_write_data_pages+0x30c/0x340
 do_writepages+0xd8/0x1b0
 __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x370
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x233/0x4d0
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x56/0xf0
 wb_writeback+0x1dd/0x2d0
 wb_workfn+0x367/0x4a0
 process_one_work+0x21d/0x430
 worker_thread+0x4e/0x3c0
 kthread+0x103/0x130
 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50

The root cause is: after cp_error is set, f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write()
in f2fs_write_single_data_page() tries to flush IPU bio in cache, however
f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write() missed to check validity of @bio parameter,
result in submitting random cached bio which belong to other IO context,
then it will cause use-after-free issue, fix it by adding additional
validity check.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.180
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.111
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.28
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.2.15
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.3 < 6.3.2
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.15% 0.045
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2f423fda64fb49213aa0ed5056079cf295a5df2
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a7f63283af6befc0f91d549f4f6917dff7479a9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d058f0ab161437369ad6e45a4b67c2886e71373
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97ec6f1788cc6bee3f8c89cb908e1a2a1cd859bb
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af4ce124d7bd74cb839bbdaccffbb416771a56b5
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cdb422c839134273866208dad5360835ddb9794
Patch