CVE-2025-40246

*** Pendiente de traducción *** In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair<br /> <br /> xfs/286 produced this report on my test fleet:<br /> <br /> ==================================================================<br /> BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110<br /> <br /> Out-of-bounds read at 0xffff88843fe9e038 (184B right of kfence-#184):<br /> memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110<br /> xrep_symlink_salvage_inline+0xb3/0xf0 [xfs]<br /> xrep_symlink_salvage+0x100/0x110 [xfs]<br /> xrep_symlink+0x2e/0x80 [xfs]<br /> xrep_attempt+0x61/0x1f0 [xfs]<br /> xfs_scrub_metadata+0x34f/0x5c0 [xfs]<br /> xfs_ioc_scrubv_metadata+0x387/0x560 [xfs]<br /> xfs_file_ioctl+0xe23/0x10e0 [xfs]<br /> __x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0<br /> do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53<br /> <br /> kfence-#184: 0xffff88843fe9df80-0xffff88843fe9dfea, size=107, cache=kmalloc-128<br /> <br /> allocated by task 3470 on cpu 1 at 263329.131592s (192823.508886s ago):<br /> xfs_init_local_fork+0x79/0xe0 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iformat_local+0xa4/0x170 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iformat_data_fork+0x148/0x180 [xfs]<br /> xfs_inode_from_disk+0x2cd/0x480 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iget+0x450/0xd60 [xfs]<br /> xfs_bulkstat_one_int+0x6b/0x510 [xfs]<br /> xfs_bulkstat_iwalk+0x1e/0x30 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iwalk_ag_recs+0xdf/0x150 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iwalk_run_callbacks+0xb9/0x190 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iwalk_ag+0x1dc/0x2f0 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iwalk_args.constprop.0+0x6a/0x120 [xfs]<br /> xfs_iwalk+0xa4/0xd0 [xfs]<br /> xfs_bulkstat+0xfa/0x170 [xfs]<br /> xfs_ioc_fsbulkstat.isra.0+0x13a/0x230 [xfs]<br /> xfs_file_ioctl+0xbf2/0x10e0 [xfs]<br /> __x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0<br /> do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53<br /> <br /> CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1300113 Comm: xfs_scrub Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4-djwx #rc4 PREEMPT(lazy) 3d744dd94e92690f00a04398d2bd8631dcef1954<br /> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-4.module+el8.8.0+21164+ed375313 04/01/2014<br /> ==================================================================<br /> <br /> On further analysis, I realized that the second parameter to min() is<br /> not correct. xfs_ifork::if_bytes is the size of the xfs_ifork::if_data<br /> buffer. if_bytes can be smaller than the data fork size because:<br /> <br /> (a) the forkoff code tries to keep the data area as large as possible<br /> (b) for symbolic links, if_bytes is the ondisk file size + 1<br /> (c) forkoff is always a multiple of 8.<br /> <br /> Case in point: for a single-byte symlink target, forkoff will be<br /> 8 but the buffer will only be 2 bytes long.<br /> <br /> In other words, the logic here is wrong and we walk off the end of the<br /> incore buffer. Fix that.