416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67CVE-2024-26972CVE-2024-26972
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: ubifs_symlink: Fix memleak of inode->i_link in error path
For error handling path in ubifs_symlink(), inode will be marked as
bad first, then iput() is invoked. If inode->i_link is initialized by
fscrypt_encrypt_symlink() in encryption scenario, inode->i_link won’t
be freed by callchain ubifs_free_inode -> fscrypt_free_inode in error
handling path, because make_bad_inode() has changed ‘inode->i_mode’ as
‘S_IFREG’.
Following kmemleak is easy to be reproduced by injecting error in
ubifs_jnl_update() when doing symlink in encryption scenario:
unreferenced object 0xffff888103da3d98 (size 8):
comm “ln”, pid 1692, jiffies 4294914701 (age 12.045s)
backtrace:
kmemdup+0x32/0x70
__fscrypt_encrypt_symlink+0xed/0x1c0
ubifs_symlink+0x210/0x300 [ubifs]
vfs_symlink+0x216/0x360
do_symlinkat+0x11a/0x190
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xe0
There are two ways fixing it:
- Remove make_bad_inode() in error handling path. We can do that
because ubifs_evict_inode() will do same processes for good
symlink inode and bad symlink inode, for inode->i_nlink checking
is before is_bad_inode(). - Free inode->i_link before marking inode bad.
Method 2 is picked, it has less influence, personally, I think.
Affected configurations
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CNA Affected
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"product": "Linux",
"vendor": "Linux",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected",
"repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
"programFiles": [
"fs/ubifs/dir.c"
],
"versions": [
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"version": "2c58d548f570",
"lessThan": "62b5ae00c2b8",
"status": "affected",
"versionType": "git"
},
{
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"lessThan": "6379b44cdcd6",
"status": "affected",
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}
]
},
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"programFiles": [
"fs/ubifs/dir.c"
],
"versions": [
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"version": "5.2",
"status": "affected"
},
{
"version": "0",
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"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "custom"
},
{
"version": "6.8.3",
"lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "custom"
},
{
"version": "6.9",
"lessThanOrEqual": "*",
"status": "unaffected",
"versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
}
]
}
]Related
