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HistoryFeb 27, 2024 - 6:40 p.m.

CVE-2021-46945 ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified

2024-02-2718:40:31
Linux
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linux kernel
ext4 vulnerability
panic behavior
mount option

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

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

ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified

Before commit 014c9caa29d3 (“ext4: make ext4_abort() use
__ext4_error()”), the following series of commands would trigger a
panic:

  1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test
  2. mount /dev/sda -o remount,abort test

After commit 014c9caa29d3, remounting a file system using the test
mount option “abort” will no longer trigger a panic. This commit will
restore the behaviour immediately before commit 014c9caa29d3.
(However, note that the Linux kernel’s behavior has not been
consistent; some previous kernel versions, including 5.4 and 4.19
similarly did not panic after using the mount option “abort”.)

This also makes a change to long-standing behaviour; namely, the
following series commands will now cause a panic, when previously it
did not:

  1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test
  2. echo test > /sys/fs/ext4/sda/trigger_fs_error

However, this makes ext4’s behaviour much more consistent, so this is
a good thing.

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%