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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2022-49707

ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: add reserved GDT blocks check We capture a NULL pointer issue when resizing a corrupt ext4 image which is freshly clear resize_inode feature (not run e2fsck). It could be simply reproduced by following steps. The problem is because of the resize_inode feature was cleared, and it will convert the filesystem to meta_bg mode in ext4_resize_fs(), but the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks was not reduced to zero, so could we mistakenly call reserve_backup_gdb() and passing an uninitialized resize_inode to it when adding new group descriptors. mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda 3G tune2fs -O ^resize_inode /dev/sda #forget to run requested e2fsck mount /dev/sda /mnt resize2fs /dev/sda 8G ======== BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 CPU: 19 PID: 3243 Comm: resize2fs Not tainted 5.18.0-rc7-00001-gfde086c5ebfd #748 ... RIP: 0010:ext4_flex_group_add+0xe08/0x2570 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_resize_fs+0xbec/0x1660 __ext4_ioctl+0x1749/0x24e0 ext4_ioctl+0x12/0x20 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xa6/0x110 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f2dd739617b ======== The fix is simple, add a check in ext4_resize_begin() to make sure that the es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero when the resize_inode feature is disabled.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < 0dc2fca8e4f9ac4a40e8424a10163369cca0cc06affected
  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < 7c921328ac760bba780bdace41f4cd045f7f1405affected
  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < b9747263b13e5290ac4d63bec47e38f701303cadaffected
  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < fba54289176702a7caac0b64738406775817f451affected
  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < bfd004a1d3a062aac300523d406ac1f3e5f1a82caffected
  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < 33b1bba31f4c784d33d2c2517964bdccdc9204cdaffected
  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < af75c481a2e45e70f62f5942c93695e95bf7bd21affected
  • 1c6bd7173d66b3dfdefcedb38cabc1fb03997509 to < b55c3cd102a6f48b90e61c44f7f3dda8c290c694affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 3.7affected
  • 0 to < 3.7unaffected
  • 4.9.320 to ≤ 4.9.*unaffected
  • 4.14.285 to ≤ 4.14.*unaffected
  • 4.19.249 to ≤ 4.19.*unaffected
  • 5.4.200 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
  • 5.10.124 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.49 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 5.18.6 to ≤ 5.18.*unaffected
  • 5.19 to ≤ *unaffected

References