GHSA-V546-2FCJ-RWVX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-17 09:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:31
VLAI?
Details

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

ext4: make sure the first directory block is not a hole

The syzbot constructs a directory that has no dirblock but is non-inline, i.e. the first directory block is a hole. And no errors are reported when creating files in this directory in the following flow.

ext4_mknod
 ...
  ext4_add_entry
    // Read block 0
    ext4_read_dirblock(dir, block, DIRENT)
      bh = ext4_bread(NULL, inode, block, 0)
      if (!bh && (type == INDEX || type == DIRENT_HTREE))
      // The first directory block is a hole
      // But type == DIRENT, so no error is reported.

After that, we get a directory block without '.' and '..' but with a valid dentry. This may cause some code that relies on dot or dotdot (such as make_indexed_dir()) to crash.

Therefore when ext4_read_dirblock() finds that the first directory block is a hole report that the filesystem is corrupted and return an error to avoid loading corrupted data from disk causing something bad.

Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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  "aliases": [
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    "nvd_published_at": "2024-08-17T09:15:10Z",
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  "id": "GHSA-v546-2fcj-rwvx",
  "modified": "2025-11-04T00:31:13Z",
  "published": "2024-08-17T09:30:25Z",
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      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html"
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}


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