CVE-2024-42311

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
17/08/2024
Last modified:
03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> hfs: fix to initialize fields of hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode()<br /> <br /> Syzbot reports uninitialized value access issue as below:<br /> <br /> loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 64<br /> =====================================================<br /> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfs_revalidate_dentry+0x307/0x3f0 fs/hfs/sysdep.c:30<br /> hfs_revalidate_dentry+0x307/0x3f0 fs/hfs/sysdep.c:30<br /> d_revalidate fs/namei.c:862 [inline]<br /> lookup_fast+0x89e/0x8e0 fs/namei.c:1649<br /> walk_component fs/namei.c:2001 [inline]<br /> link_path_walk+0x817/0x1480 fs/namei.c:2332<br /> path_lookupat+0xd9/0x6f0 fs/namei.c:2485<br /> filename_lookup+0x22e/0x740 fs/namei.c:2515<br /> user_path_at_empty+0x8b/0x390 fs/namei.c:2924<br /> user_path_at include/linux/namei.h:57 [inline]<br /> do_mount fs/namespace.c:3689 [inline]<br /> __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3898 [inline]<br /> __se_sys_mount+0x66b/0x810 fs/namespace.c:3875<br /> __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x140 fs/namespace.c:3875<br /> do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]<br /> do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b<br /> <br /> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfs_ext_read_extent fs/hfs/extent.c:196 [inline]<br /> BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfs_get_block+0x92d/0x1620 fs/hfs/extent.c:366<br /> hfs_ext_read_extent fs/hfs/extent.c:196 [inline]<br /> hfs_get_block+0x92d/0x1620 fs/hfs/extent.c:366<br /> block_read_full_folio+0x4ff/0x11b0 fs/buffer.c:2271<br /> hfs_read_folio+0x55/0x60 fs/hfs/inode.c:39<br /> filemap_read_folio+0x148/0x4f0 mm/filemap.c:2426<br /> do_read_cache_folio+0x7c8/0xd90 mm/filemap.c:3553<br /> do_read_cache_page mm/filemap.c:3595 [inline]<br /> read_cache_page+0xfb/0x2f0 mm/filemap.c:3604<br /> read_mapping_page include/linux/pagemap.h:755 [inline]<br /> hfs_btree_open+0x928/0x1ae0 fs/hfs/btree.c:78<br /> hfs_mdb_get+0x260c/0x3000 fs/hfs/mdb.c:204<br /> hfs_fill_super+0x1fb1/0x2790 fs/hfs/super.c:406<br /> mount_bdev+0x628/0x920 fs/super.c:1359<br /> hfs_mount+0xcd/0xe0 fs/hfs/super.c:456<br /> legacy_get_tree+0x167/0x2e0 fs/fs_context.c:610<br /> vfs_get_tree+0xdc/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1489<br /> do_new_mount+0x7a9/0x16f0 fs/namespace.c:3145<br /> path_mount+0xf98/0x26a0 fs/namespace.c:3475<br /> do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]<br /> __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]<br /> __se_sys_mount+0x919/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3674<br /> __ia32_sys_mount+0x15b/0x1b0 fs/namespace.c:3674<br /> do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]<br /> __do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178<br /> do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203<br /> do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246<br /> entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82<br /> <br /> Uninit was created at:<br /> __alloc_pages+0x9a6/0xe00 mm/page_alloc.c:4590<br /> __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:238 [inline]<br /> alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:261 [inline]<br /> alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2190 [inline]<br /> allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2354 [inline]<br /> new_slab+0x2d7/0x1400 mm/slub.c:2407<br /> ___slab_alloc+0x16b5/0x3970 mm/slub.c:3540<br /> __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3625 [inline]<br /> __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3678 [inline]<br /> slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3850 [inline]<br /> kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x64d/0xb30 mm/slub.c:3879<br /> alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3018 [inline]<br /> hfs_alloc_inode+0x5a/0xc0 fs/hfs/super.c:165<br /> alloc_inode+0x83/0x440 fs/inode.c:260<br /> new_inode_pseudo fs/inode.c:1005 [inline]<br /> new_inode+0x38/0x4f0 fs/inode.c:1031<br /> hfs_new_inode+0x61/0x1010 fs/hfs/inode.c:186<br /> hfs_mkdir+0x54/0x250 fs/hfs/dir.c:228<br /> vfs_mkdir+0x49a/0x700 fs/namei.c:4126<br /> do_mkdirat+0x529/0x810 fs/namei.c:4149<br /> __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4164 [inline]<br /> __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4162 [inline]<br /> __x64_sys_mkdirat+0xc8/0x120 fs/namei.c:4162<br /> do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]<br /> do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b<br /> <br /> It missed to initialize .tz_secondswest, .cached_start and .cached_blocks<br /> fields in struct hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode(), fix it.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.19.320 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.20 (including) 5.4.282 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.5 (including) 5.10.224 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.165 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 6.1.103 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.2 (including) 6.6.44 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.7 (including) 6.10.3 (excluding)