5.5
CVE-2025-21658
- EPSS 0.03%
- Published 21.01.2025 13:15:09
- Last modified 01.10.2025 20:18:17
- Source 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081f
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid extent tree
[BUG]
Syzbot reported a crash with the following call trace:
BTRFS info (device loop0): scrub: started on devid 1
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000208
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 106e70067 P4D 106e70067 PUD 107143067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 689 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O 6.13.0-rc4-custom+ #206
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
RIP: 0010:find_first_extent_item+0x26/0x1f0 [btrfs]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
scrub_find_fill_first_stripe+0x13d/0x3b0 [btrfs]
scrub_simple_mirror+0x175/0x260 [btrfs]
scrub_stripe+0x5d4/0x6c0 [btrfs]
scrub_chunk+0xbb/0x170 [btrfs]
scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x2f4/0x5f0 [btrfs]
btrfs_scrub_dev+0x240/0x600 [btrfs]
btrfs_ioctl+0x1dc8/0x2fa0 [btrfs]
? do_sys_openat2+0xa5/0xf0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x4f/0x120
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
</TASK>
[CAUSE]
The reproducer is using a corrupted image where extent tree root is
corrupted, thus forcing to use "rescue=all,ro" mount option to mount the
image.
Then it triggered a scrub, but since scrub relies on extent tree to find
where the data/metadata extents are, scrub_find_fill_first_stripe()
relies on an non-empty extent root.
But unfortunately scrub_find_fill_first_stripe() doesn't really expect
an NULL pointer for extent root, it use extent_root to grab fs_info and
triggered a NULL pointer dereference.
[FIX]
Add an extra check for a valid extent root at the beginning of
scrub_find_fill_first_stripe().
The new error path is introduced by 42437a6386ff ("btrfs: introduce
mount option rescue=ignorebadroots"), but that's pretty old, and later
commit b979547513ff ("btrfs: scrub: introduce helper to find and fill
sector info for a scrub_stripe") changed how we do scrub.
So for kernels older than 6.6, the fix will need manual backport.Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 6.6.72
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.10
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc5
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc6
| Type | Source | Score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 0.03% | 0.067 |
| Source | 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.