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High severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

btrfs: fix information leak in btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino()

Syzbot reported the following information leak for in
btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino():

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x110 lib/usercopy.c:40
instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
_copy_to_user+0xbc/0x110 lib/usercopy.c:40
copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline]
btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0x440/0x750 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3499
btrfs_ioctl+0x714/0x1260
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:904 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x261/0x450 fs/ioctl.c:890
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:890
x64_sys_call+0x1883/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:
__kmalloc_large_node+0x231/0x370 mm/slub.c:3921
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3954 [inline]
__kmalloc_node+0xb07/0x1060 mm/slub.c:3973
kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:648 [inline]
kvmalloc_node+0xc0/0x2d0 mm/util.c:634
kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:766 [inline]
init_data_container+0x49/0x1e0 fs/btrfs/backref.c:2779
btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0x17c/0x750 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3480
btrfs_ioctl+0x714/0x1260
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:904 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x261/0x450 fs/ioctl.c:890
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:890
x64_sys_call+0x1883/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Bytes 40-65535 of 65536 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 65536 starts at ffff888045a40000

This happens, because we're copying a 'struct btrfs_data_container' back
to user-space. This btrfs_data_container is allocated in
'init_data_container()' via kvmalloc(), which does not zero-fill the
memory.

Fix this by using kvzalloc() which zeroes out the memory on allocation.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 17, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2024
Last updated Feb 3, 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
None
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:N/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.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-35849

GHSA ID

GHSA-8wh8-cr52-wj57

Source code

No known source code

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