CVE-2022-49707
26.02.2025, 07:01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check We capture a NULL pointer issue when resizing a corrupt ext4 image which is freshly clear resize_inode feature (not run e2fsck). It could be simply reproduced by following steps. The problem is because of the resize_inode feature was cleared, and it will convert the filesystem to meta_bg mode in ext4_resize_fs(), but the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks was not reduced to zero, so could we mistakenly call reserve_backup_gdb() and passing an uninitialized resize_inode to it when adding new group descriptors. mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda 3G tune2fs -O ^resize_inode /dev/sda #forget to run requested e2fsck mount /dev/sda /mnt resize2fs /dev/sda 8G ======== BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 CPU: 19 PID: 3243 Comm: resize2fs Not tainted 5.18.0-rc7-00001-gfde086c5ebfd #748 ... RIP: 0010:ext4_flex_group_add+0xe08/0x2570 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_resize_fs+0xbec/0x1660 __ext4_ioctl+0x1749/0x24e0 ext4_ioctl+0x12/0x20 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa6/0x110 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f2dd739617b ======== The fix is simple, add a check in ext4_resize_begin() to make sure that the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero when the resize_inode feature is disabled.Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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linux | linux_kernel | 𝑥 < 4.9.320 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.10 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.14.285 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.15 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.19.249 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.20 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.4.200 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.5 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.10.124 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.11 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.15.49 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.18.6 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.19:rc1 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.19:rc2 |
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