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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

High severity Unreviewed Published Oct 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 24, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

btrfs: send: fix buffer overflow detection when copying path to cache entry

Starting with commit c0247d289e73 ("btrfs: send: annotate struct
name_cache_entry with __counted_by()") we annotated the variable length
array "name" from the name_cache_entry structure with __counted_by() to
improve overflow detection. However that alone was not correct, because
the length of that array does not match the "name_len" field - it matches
that plus 1 to include the NUL string terminator, so that makes a
fortified kernel think there's an overflow and report a splat like this:

strcpy: detected buffer overflow: 20 byte write of buffer size 19
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 3310 at __fortify_report+0x45/0x50
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 3310 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 6.11.0-prnet #1
Hardware name: CompuLab Ltd. sbc-ihsw/Intense-PC2 (IPC2), BIOS IPC2_3.330.7 X64 03/15/2018
RIP: 0010:__fortify_report+0x45/0x50
Code: 48 8b 34 (...)
RSP: 0018:ffff97ebc0d6f650 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 7749924ef60fa600 RBX: ffff8bf5446a521a RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: 00000000ffffdfff RSI: ffff97ebc0d6f548 RDI: ffff8bf84e7a1cc8
RBP: ffff8bf548574080 R08: ffffffffa8c40e10 R09: 0000000000005ffd
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: ffffffffa8c70e10 R12: ffff8bf551eef400
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000013 R15: 00000000000003a8
FS: 00007fae144de8c0(0000) GS:ffff8bf84e780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fae14691690 CR3: 00000001027a2003 CR4: 00000000001706f0
Call Trace:

? __warn+0x12a/0x1d0
? __fortify_report+0x45/0x50
? report_bug+0x154/0x1c0
? handle_bug+0x42/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x50
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
? __fortify_report+0x45/0x50
__fortify_panic+0x9/0x10
__get_cur_name_and_parent+0x3bc/0x3c0
get_cur_path+0x207/0x3b0
send_extent_data+0x709/0x10d0
? find_parent_nodes+0x22df/0x25d0
? mas_nomem+0x13/0x90
? mtree_insert_range+0xa5/0x110
? btrfs_lru_cache_store+0x5f/0x1e0
? iterate_extent_inodes+0x52d/0x5a0
process_extent+0xa96/0x11a0
? __pfx_lookup_backref_cache+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_store_backref_cache+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_iterate_backrefs+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_check_extent_item+0x10/0x10
changed_cb+0x6fa/0x930
? tree_advance+0x362/0x390
? memcmp_extent_buffer+0xd7/0x160
send_subvol+0xf0a/0x1520
btrfs_ioctl_send+0x106b/0x11d0
? __pfx___clone_root_cmp_sort+0x10/0x10
_btrfs_ioctl_send+0x1ac/0x240
btrfs_ioctl+0x75b/0x850
__se_sys_ioctl+0xca/0x150
do_syscall_64+0x85/0x160
? __count_memcg_events+0x69/0x100
? handle_mm_fault+0x1327/0x15c0
? __se_sys_rt_sigprocmask+0xf1/0x180
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x75/0xa0
? do_syscall_64+0x91/0x160
? do_user_addr_fault+0x21d/0x630
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fae145eeb4f
Code: 00 48 89 (...)
RSP: 002b:00007ffdf1cb09b0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007fae145eeb4f
RDX: 00007ffdf1cb0ad0 RSI: 0000000040489426 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00000000000078fe R08: 00007fae144006c0 R09: 00007ffdf1cb0927
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffdf1cb1ce8
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 000055c499fab2e0 R15: 0000000000000004

Fix this by not storing the NUL string terminator since we don't actually
need it for name cache entries, this way "name_len" corresponds to the
actual size of the "name" array. This requires marking the "name" array
field with __nonstring and using memcpy() instead of strcpy() as
recommended by the guidelines at:

KSPP/linux#90

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2024
Last updated Oct 24, 2024

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

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-49869

GHSA ID

GHSA-gcv4-6hmh-xhwc

Source code

No known source code

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