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CVE-2022-48733

2024-06-2000:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
linux kernel
btrfs
use-after-free

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix use-after-free after failure to create a snapshot
At ioctl.c:create_snapshot(), we allocate a pending snapshot structure and
then attach it to the transaction’s list of pending snapshots. After that
we call btrfs_commit_transaction(), and if that returns an error we jump
to ‘fail’ label, where we kfree() the pending snapshot structure. This can
result in a later use-after-free of the pending snapshot:

  1. We allocated the pending snapshot and added it to the transaction’s
    list of pending snapshots;
  2. We call btrfs_commit_transaction(), and it fails either at the first
    call to btrfs_run_delayed_refs() or btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups().
    In both cases, we don’t abort the transaction and we release our
    transaction handle. We jump to the ‘fail’ label and free the pending
    snapshot structure. We return with the pending snapshot still in the
    transaction’s list;
  3. Another task commits the transaction. This time there’s no error at
    all, and then during the transaction commit it accesses a pointer
    to the pending snapshot structure that the snapshot creation task
    has already freed, resulting in a user-after-free.
    This issue could actually be detected by smatch, which produced the
    following warning:
    fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:843 create_snapshot() warn: ‘&pending_snapshot->list’
    not removed from list
    So fix this by not having the snapshot creation ioctl directly add the
    pending snapshot to the transaction’s list. Instead add the pending
    snapshot to the transaction handle, and then at btrfs_commit_transaction()
    we add the snapshot to the list only when we can guarantee that any error
    returned after that point will result in a transaction abort, in which
    case the ioctl code can safely free the pending snapshot and no one can
    access it anymore.

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

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