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CVE-2025-37738

ext4: ignore xattrs past end



Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: ignore xattrs past end Once inside 'ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all' we should ignore xattrs entries past the 'end' entry. This fixes the following KASAN reported issue: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888012c120c4 by task repro/2065 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2065 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ #11 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x1fd/0x300 ? tcp_gro_dev_warn+0x260/0x260 ? _printk+0xc0/0x100 ? read_lock_is_recursive+0x10/0x10 ? irq_work_queue+0x72/0xf0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0 print_address_description+0x78/0x390 print_report+0x107/0x1f0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x3ff/0x4b0 ? __phys_addr+0xb5/0x160 ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 kasan_report+0xcc/0x100 ? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90 ? ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xd30/0xd30 ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x5f0/0x5f0 ? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x2b/0x5f0 ? inode_update_timestamps+0x410/0x410 ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb64/0xd30 ? ext4_truncate+0xb70/0xdc0 ? ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x1d20/0x1d20 ? __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x670/0x670 ? ext4_journal_check_start+0x16f/0x240 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x2f2/0x3a0 ext4_evict_inode+0xc8c/0xff0 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0 ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x8a0 ? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0 evict+0x4ac/0x950 ? proc_nr_inodes+0x310/0x310 ? trace_ext4_drop_inode+0xa2/0x220 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x30 ? iput+0x4cb/0x7e0 do_unlinkat+0x495/0x7c0 ? try_break_deleg+0x120/0x120 ? 0xffffffff81000000 ? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x210 ? strncpy_from_user+0x13e/0x250 ? getname_flags+0x1dc/0x530 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc8/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x65/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f RIP: 0033:0x434ffd Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8 RSP: 002b:00007ffc50fa7b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc50fa7e18 RCX: 0000000000434ffd RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000240 RDI: 0000000000000005 RBP: 00007ffc50fa7be0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 00007ffc50fa7e08 R14: 00000000004bbf30 R15: 0000000000000001 </TASK> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888012c12000 which belongs to the cache filp of size 360 The buggy address is located 196 bytes inside of freed 360-byte region [ffff888012c12000, ffff888012c12168) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12c12 head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 flags: 0x40(head|node=0|zone=0) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004 head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000001 ffffea00004b0481 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff888012c11f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff888012c12000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb > ffff888012c12080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff888012c12100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc ffff888012c12180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ---truncated---

Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-05-01 | Updated 2025-05-26 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 6aff941cb0f7d0c897c3698ad2e30672709135e3
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 76c365fa7e2a8bb85f0190cdb4b8cdc99b2fdce3
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before f737418b6de31c962c7192777ee4018906975383
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before cf9291a3449b04688b81e32621e88de8f4314b54
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 362a90cecd36e8a5c415966d0b75b04a0270e4dd
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before eb59cc31b6ea076021d14b04e7faab1636b87d0e
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 3bc6317033f365ce578eb6039445fb66162722fd
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 836e625b03a666cf93ff5be328c8cb30336db872
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before c8e008b60492cf6fd31ef127aea6d02fd3d314cd
affected

Default status
affected

5.4.293
unaffected

5.10.237
unaffected

5.15.181
unaffected

6.1.135
unaffected

6.6.88
unaffected

6.12.24
unaffected

6.13.12
unaffected

6.14.3
unaffected

6.15
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/6aff941cb0f7d0c897c3698ad2e30672709135e3

git.kernel.org/...c/76c365fa7e2a8bb85f0190cdb4b8cdc99b2fdce3

git.kernel.org/...c/f737418b6de31c962c7192777ee4018906975383

git.kernel.org/...c/cf9291a3449b04688b81e32621e88de8f4314b54

git.kernel.org/...c/362a90cecd36e8a5c415966d0b75b04a0270e4dd

git.kernel.org/...c/eb59cc31b6ea076021d14b04e7faab1636b87d0e

git.kernel.org/...c/3bc6317033f365ce578eb6039445fb66162722fd

git.kernel.org/...c/836e625b03a666cf93ff5be328c8cb30336db872

git.kernel.org/...c/c8e008b60492cf6fd31ef127aea6d02fd3d314cd

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