CVE-2024-50015

Summary

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

ext4: dax: fix overflowing extents beyond inode size when partially writing

The dax_iomap_rw() does two things in each iteration: map written blocks and copy user data to blocks. If the process is killed by user(See signal handling in dax_iomap_iter()), the copied data will be returned and added on inode size, which means that the length of written extents may exceed the inode size, then fsck will fail. An example is given as:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=4M count=1 dax_iomap_rw iomap_iter // round 1 ext4_iomap_begin ext4_iomap_alloc // allocate 02M extents(written flag) dax_iomap_iter // copy 2M data iomap_iter // round 2 iomap_iter_advance iter->pos += iter->processed // iter->pos = 2M ext4_iomap_begin ext4_iomap_alloc // allocate 24M extents(written flag) dax_iomap_iter fatal_signal_pending done = iter->pos - iocb->ki_pos // done = 2M ext4_handle_inode_extension ext4_update_inode_size // inode size = 2M

fsck reports: Inode 13, i_size is 2097152, should be 4194304. Fix?

Fix the problem by truncating extents if the written length is smaller than expected.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba < f8a7c342326f6ad1dfdb30a18dd013c70f5e9669affected
LinuxLinux776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba < 8c30a9a8610c314554997f86370140746aa35661affected
LinuxLinux776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba < abfaa876b948baaea4d14f21a1963789845c8b4caffected
LinuxLinux776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba < 5efccdee4a7d507a483f20f880b809cc4eaef14daffected
LinuxLinux776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba < a9f331f51515bdb3ebc8d0963131af367ef468f6affected
LinuxLinux776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba < ec0dd451e236c46e4858d53e9e82bae7797a7af5affected
LinuxLinux776722e85d3b0936253ecc3d14db4fba37f191ba < dda898d7ffe85931f9cca6d702a51f33717c501eaffected
LinuxLinux4.10affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.10unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.227 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.168 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.113 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.55 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.10.14 <= 6.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.11.3 <= 6.11.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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