CVE-2024-41013 xfs: don't walk off the end of a directory data block

2024-07-2906:36:59

Linux

www.cve.org

linux

xfs

directory block

memory region

vulnerability

EPSS

Percentile

9.4%

JSON

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

xfs: don’t walk off the end of a directory data block

This adds sanity checks for xfs_dir2_data_unused and xfs_dir2_data_entry
to make sure don’t stray beyond valid memory region. Before patching, the
loop simply checks that the start offset of the dup and dep is within the
range. So in a crafted image, if last entry is xfs_dir2_data_unused, we
can change dup->length to dup->length-1 and leave 1 byte of space. In the
next traversal, this space will be considered as dup or dep. We may
encounter an out of bound read when accessing the fixed members.

In the patch, we make sure that the remaining bytes large enough to hold
an unused entry before accessing xfs_dir2_data_unused and
xfs_dir2_data_unused is XFS_DIR2_DATA_ALIGN byte aligned. We also make
sure that the remaining bytes large enough to hold a dirent with a
single-byte name before accessing xfs_dir2_data_entry.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_data.c",
      "fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_priv.h"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "0c7fcdb6d06c",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_data.c",
      "fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_priv.h"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.11",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]