CVE-2025-39735

Summary

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

jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get()

During the "size_check" label in ea_get(), the code checks if the extended attribute list (xattr) size matches ea_size. If not, it logs "ea_get: invalid extended attribute" and calls print_hex_dump().

Here, EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf->xattr) returns 4110417968, which exceeds INT_MAX (2,147,483,647). Then ea_size is clamped:

int size = clamp_t(int, ea_size, 0, EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf->xattr));

Although clamp_t aims to bound ea_size between 0 and 4110417968, the upper limit is treated as an int, causing an overflow above 2^31 - 1. This leads "size" to wrap around and become negative (-184549328).

The "size" is then passed to print_hex_dump() (called "len" in print_hex_dump()), it is passed as type size_t (an unsigned type), this is then stored inside a variable called "int remaining", which is then assigned to "int linelen" which is then passed to hex_dump_to_buffer(). In print_hex_dump() the for loop, iterates through 0 to len-1, where len is 18446744073525002176, calling hex_dump_to_buffer() on each iteration:

for (i = 0; i < len; i += rowsize) {
	linelen = min(remaining, rowsize);
	remaining -= rowsize;

	hex_dump_to_buffer(ptr + i, linelen, rowsize, groupsize,
			   linebuf, sizeof(linebuf), ascii);

	...
}

The expected stopping condition (i < len) is effectively broken since len is corrupted and very large. This eventually leads to the "ptr+i" being passed to hex_dump_to_buffer() to get closer to the end of the actual bounds of "ptr", eventually an out of bounds access is done in hex_dump_to_buffer() in the following for loop:

for (j = 0; j < len; j++) {
		if (linebuflen < lx + 2)
			goto overflow2;
		ch = ptr[j];
	...
}

To fix this we should validate "EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf->xattr)" before it is utilised.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d6fd5b9c6acbc005e53d0211c7381f566babec1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50afcee7011155933d8d5e8832f52eeee018cfd3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78c9cbde8880ec02d864c166bcb4fe989ce1d95f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46e2c031aa59ea65128991cbca474bd5c0c2ecdb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8c31808925b11393a6601f534bb63bac5366bab
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0beddc2a3f9b9cf7d8887973041e36c2d0fa3652
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16d3d36436492aa248b2d8045e75585ebcc2f34d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5263822558a8a7c0d0248d5679c2dcf4d5cda61f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdf480da5837c23b146c4743c18de97202fcab37

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