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High severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 6, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

hfsplus: don't query the device logical block size multiple times

Devices block sizes may change. One of these cases is a loop device by
using ioctl LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE.

While this may cause other issues like IO being rejected, in the case of
hfsplus, it will allocate a block by using that size and potentially write
out-of-bounds when hfsplus_read_wrapper calls hfsplus_submit_bio and the
latter function reads a different io_size.

Using a new min_io_size initally set to sb_min_blocksize works for the
purposes of the original fix, since it will be set to the max between
HFSPLUS_SECTOR_SIZE and the first seen logical block size. We still use the
max between HFSPLUS_SECTOR_SIZE and min_io_size in case the latter is not
initialized.

Tested by mounting an hfsplus filesystem with loop block sizes 512, 1024
and 4096.

The produced KASAN report before the fix looks like this:

[ 419.944641] ==================================================================
[ 419.945655] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hfsplus_read_wrapper+0x659/0xa0a
[ 419.946703] Read of size 2 at addr ffff88800721fc00 by task repro/10678
[ 419.947612]
[ 419.947846] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 10678 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-00008-gdf56e0f2f3ca #84
[ 419.949007] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
[ 419.950035] Call Trace:
[ 419.950384]
[ 419.950676] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x78
[ 419.951212] ? hfsplus_read_wrapper+0x659/0xa0a
[ 419.951830] print_report+0x14c/0x49e
[ 419.952361] ? __virt_addr_valid+0x267/0x278
[ 419.952979] ? kmem_cache_debug_flags+0xc/0x1d
[ 419.953561] ? hfsplus_read_wrapper+0x659/0xa0a
[ 419.954231] kasan_report+0x89/0xb0
[ 419.954748] ? hfsplus_read_wrapper+0x659/0xa0a
[ 419.955367] hfsplus_read_wrapper+0x659/0xa0a
[ 419.955948] ? __pfx_hfsplus_read_wrapper+0x10/0x10
[ 419.956618] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x59/0x1a9
[ 419.957214] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x2e
[ 419.957772] hfsplus_fill_super+0x348/0x1590
[ 419.958355] ? hlock_class+0x4c/0x109
[ 419.958867] ? __pfx_hfsplus_fill_super+0x10/0x10
[ 419.959499] ? __pfx_string+0x10/0x10
[ 419.960006] ? lock_acquire+0x3e2/0x454
[ 419.960532] ? bdev_name.constprop.0+0xce/0x243
[ 419.961129] ? __pfx_bdev_name.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
[ 419.961799] ? pointer+0x3f0/0x62f
[ 419.962277] ? __pfx_pointer+0x10/0x10
[ 419.962761] ? vsnprintf+0x6c4/0xfba
[ 419.963178] ? __pfx_vsnprintf+0x10/0x10
[ 419.963621] ? setup_bdev_super+0x376/0x3b3
[ 419.964029] ? snprintf+0x9d/0xd2
[ 419.964344] ? __pfx_snprintf+0x10/0x10
[ 419.964675] ? lock_acquired+0x45c/0x5e9
[ 419.965016] ? set_blocksize+0x139/0x1c1
[ 419.965381] ? sb_set_blocksize+0x6d/0xae
[ 419.965742] ? __pfx_hfsplus_fill_super+0x10/0x10
[ 419.966179] mount_bdev+0x12f/0x1bf
[ 419.966512] ? __pfx_mount_bdev+0x10/0x10
[ 419.966886] ? vfs_parse_fs_string+0xce/0x111
[ 419.967293] ? __pfx_vfs_parse_fs_string+0x10/0x10
[ 419.967702] ? __pfx_hfsplus_mount+0x10/0x10
[ 419.968073] legacy_get_tree+0x104/0x178
[ 419.968414] vfs_get_tree+0x86/0x296
[ 419.968751] path_mount+0xba3/0xd0b
[ 419.969157] ? __pfx_path_mount+0x10/0x10
[ 419.969594] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1e2/0x260
[ 419.970311] do_mount+0x99/0xe0
[ 419.970630] ? __pfx_do_mount+0x10/0x10
[ 419.971008] __do_sys_mount+0x199/0x1c9
[ 419.971397] do_syscall_64+0xd0/0x135
[ 419.971761] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 419.972233] RIP: 0033:0x7c3cb812972e
[ 419.972564] Code: 48 8b 0d f5 46 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d c2 46 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[ 419.974371] RSP: 002b:00007ffe30632548 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[ 419.975048] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe306328d8 RCX: 00007c3cb812972e
[ 419.975701] RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000020000c80 RDI:
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Mar 6, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56548

GHSA ID

GHSA-64p7-wm49-vgg4

Source code

No known source code

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