7.8

CVE-2024-49884

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

ext4: fix slab-use-after-free in ext4_split_extent_at()

We hit the following use-after-free:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_split_extent_at+0xba8/0xcc0
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88810548ed08 by task kworker/u20:0/40
CPU: 0 PID: 40 Comm: kworker/u20:0 Not tainted 6.9.0-dirty #724
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kasan_report+0x93/0xc0
 ext4_split_extent_at+0xba8/0xcc0
 ext4_split_extent.isra.0+0x18f/0x500
 ext4_split_convert_extents+0x275/0x750
 ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents+0x73e/0x1580
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xe20/0x2dc0
 ext4_map_blocks+0x724/0x1700
 ext4_do_writepages+0x12d6/0x2a70
[...]

Allocated by task 40:
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x1ac/0x480
 ext4_find_extent+0xf3b/0x1e70
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x188/0x2dc0
 ext4_map_blocks+0x724/0x1700
 ext4_do_writepages+0x12d6/0x2a70
[...]

Freed by task 40:
 kfree+0xf1/0x2b0
 ext4_find_extent+0xa71/0x1e70
 ext4_ext_insert_extent+0xa22/0x3260
 ext4_split_extent_at+0x3ef/0xcc0
 ext4_split_extent.isra.0+0x18f/0x500
 ext4_split_convert_extents+0x275/0x750
 ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents+0x73e/0x1580
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xe20/0x2dc0
 ext4_map_blocks+0x724/0x1700
 ext4_do_writepages+0x12d6/0x2a70
[...]
==================================================================

The flow of issue triggering is as follows:

ext4_split_extent_at
  path = *ppath
  ext4_ext_insert_extent(ppath)
    ext4_ext_create_new_leaf(ppath)
      ext4_find_extent(orig_path)
        path = *orig_path
        read_extent_tree_block
          // return -ENOMEM or -EIO
        ext4_free_ext_path(path)
          kfree(path)
        *orig_path = NULL
  a. If err is -ENOMEM:
  ext4_ext_dirty(path + path->p_depth)
  // path use-after-free !!!
  b. If err is -EIO and we have EXT_DEBUG defined:
  ext4_ext_show_leaf(path)
    eh = path[depth].p_hdr
    // path also use-after-free !!!

So when trying to zeroout or fix the extent length, call ext4_find_extent()
to update the path.

In addition we use *ppath directly as an ext4_ext_show_leaf() input to
avoid possible use-after-free when EXT_DEBUG is defined, and to avoid
unnecessary path updates.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.18 < 5.10.227
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.168
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.113
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.55
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.10.14
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.11 < 6.11.3
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.13
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.