Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: prevent softlockup in jbd2logdocheckpoint Both jbd2logdocheckpoint and jbd2journalshrinkcheckpointlist periodically release jlistlock after processing a batch of buffers to avoid long hold times on the jlistlock. However,...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: a potential memory leak has been fixed in ext4fcrecordmodified inode. Since krealloc may return NULL, in this case, state-fcmodifiedinodes may not be freed by krealloc. However, state-fcmodifiedinodes is already set to NULL...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ext4: Fixed a use-after-free in ext4orphancleanup. I identified the issue as follows: BUG: KASAN: Use-after-free in listaddvalid+0x28/0x1a0. Read of size 8 at address ffff88814b13f378 by task mount/710. CPU: 1 PID: 710 Comm:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix invalid free tracking in ext4xattrMoveToBlock In ext4xattrMoveToBlock, the value of the extended attribute that we need to move to an external block may be allocated by kvmalloc if the value is stored in an external...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Turn quotas off if mount fails after enabling quotas Yi discovered during a review of the patch “ext4: Don’t report errors with inconsistent journal features” that when ext4markrecoverycomplete returns an error value, the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ext4: Fixed an inode leak in ext4xattrinodecreate, which occurs on an error path. There is a issue when using setxattr with a fault injection: localhost fsck.ext4 -fn /dev/sda e2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 12-Sep-2022 Pass 1: Checking...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Fix for leaking uninitialized memory in the fast-commit journal When space at the end of the fast-commit journal blocks is unused, make sure to zero it out so that uninitialized memory is not leaked to the disk...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Improved error handling for ext4dirhash The ext4dirhash function almost never fails, especially since the “hash tree” feature was first introduced. However, with the addition of support for encrypted, case-folded file names...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Allow ext4getgroupinfo to fail. Previously, ext4getgroupinfo would treat an invalid group number as a BUG, since this should theoretically never happen. However, if a malicious attacker modifies the superblock via the block...

Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux-5.10, linux-5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not set EXT4GETBLOCKSCONVERT when splitting before submitting I/O When allocating blocks during within-EOF DIO and writeback with dioreadnolock enabled, EXT4GETBLOCKSPREIO was set to split an existing large unwritten...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: checks dot and dotdot of dxroot before making dir indexed Syzbot reports the following issue: ============================================ BUG: Unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed11022e24fe PGD 23ffee067 P4D...

Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: Check ‘jh-btransaction’ before removing it from the checkpoint. The following process will corrupt the ext4 image: Step 1: jbd2journalcommittransaction jbd2journalinsertcheckpointjh, committransaction // Add jh to...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: inline: fix len overflow in ext4prepareinlinedata When running the following code on an ext4 filesystem with inlinedata feature enabled, it will lead to the bug below. fd = open"file1", ORDWR | OCREAT | OTRUNC, 0666;...

Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux-5.10, linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not enable DAX on new encrypted files Currently, when a new encrypted regular file is created, the call to ext4setinodeflagsinode, init=true in ext4newinode is made before EXT4INODEENCRYPT is set. As a result, it can set...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Do not create EA inodes under the buffer lock The ext4xattrsetentry function creates new EA inodes while holding the buffer lock on the external xattr block. This is problematic because all allocation-related locking...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Refresh the inline data size before write operations The cached ei-iInlineSize can become stale between the initial size check and when ext4updateInlineData/ext4createInlineData use it. Although ext4getmaxInlineSize reads t...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Fixed the function prototype mismatch in ext4featktype. With Clang’s Kernel Control Flow Integrity kCFI, CONFIGCFICLANG, indirect call targets are validated against the expected function pointer prototype to ensure that the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fixed a warning in ext4iomapbegin due to a race between bmap and write The issue occurs as follows: ------------ cut here ------------ WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 9310 at fs/ext4/inode.c:3441 ext4iomapbegin+0x182/0x5d0 RIP:...

Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux-5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix potential out of bound read in ext4fcreplayscan The scan loop must ensure that there is at least EXT4FCTAGBASELEN of space available. If this space is insufficient, it may result in an out-of-bounds read when mounting a...

Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux-5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add error checking to ext4extreplaysetiblocks If the call to ext4mapblocks fails due to a corrupted file system, ext4extreplaysetiblocks may get stuck in an infinite loop. This can be reproduced by running generic/526 on a...