CVE-2023-53618
EUVD-2025-3202007.10.2025, 16:15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: reject invalid reloc tree root keys with stack dump [BUG] Syzbot reported a crash that an ASSERT() got triggered inside prepare_to_merge(). That ASSERT() makes sure the reloc tree is properly pointed back by its subvolume tree. [CAUSE] After more debugging output, it turns out we had an invalid reloc tree: BTRFS error (device loop1): reloc tree mismatch, root 8 has no reloc root, expect reloc root key (-8, 132, 8) gen 17 Note the above root key is (TREE_RELOC_OBJECTID, ROOT_ITEM, QUOTA_TREE_OBJECTID), meaning it's a reloc tree for quota tree. But reloc trees can only exist for subvolumes, as for non-subvolume trees, we just COW the involved tree block, no need to create a reloc tree since those tree blocks won't be shared with other trees. Only subvolumes tree can share tree blocks with other trees (thus they have BTRFS_ROOT_SHAREABLE flag). Thus this new debug output proves my previous assumption that corrupted on-disk data can trigger that ASSERT(). [FIX] Besides the dedicated fix and the graceful exit, also let tree-checker to check such root keys, to make sure reloc trees can only exist for subvolumes.Enginsight
Affected Products (NVD)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.2.19 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.3 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.3.4 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.15.127 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 ≤ 𝑥 < 6.1.46 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.2 ≤ 𝑥 < 6.4.11 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5:rc1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5:rc2 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5:rc3 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5:rc4 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5:rc5 |
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= Vulnerable software versions
Debian Releases