Linux Kernel up to 6.7.3 UBSAN fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c array index

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.7.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality in the library lib/dump_stack.c of the file fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c of the component UBSAN. The manipulation results in array index. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2023-52603. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.7.3 (Operating System). Affected is an unknown code in the library lib/dump_stack.c of the file fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c of the component UBSAN. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a array index vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-129. The product uses untrusted input when calculating or using an array index, but the product does not validate or incorrectly validates the index to ensure the index references a valid position within the array. The impact remains unknown. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot Syzkaller reported the following issue: oop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 32768 UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971:9 index -2 is out of range for type 'struct dtslot [128]' CPU: 0 PID: 3613 Comm: syz-executor270 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:151 [inline] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xdb/0x130 lib/ubsan.c:283 dtSplitRoot+0x8d8/0x1900 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971 dtSplitUp fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:985 [inline] dtInsert+0x1189/0x6b80 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:863 jfs_mkdir+0x757/0xb00 fs/jfs/namei.c:270 vfs_mkdir+0x3b3/0x590 fs/namei.c:4013 do_mkdirat+0x279/0x550 fs/namei.c:4038 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4053 [inline] __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4051 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x85/0x90 fs/namei.c:4051 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7fcdc0113fd9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffeb8bc67d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fcdc0113fd9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000340 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007fcdc00d37a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fcdc00d37a0 R10: 00005555559a72c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000f8008000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00083878000000f8 R15: 0000000000000000 The issue is caused when the value of fsi becomes less than -1. The check to break the loop when fsi value becomes -1 is present but syzbot was able to produce value less than -1 which cause the error. This patch simply add the change for the values less than 0. The patch is tested via syzbot.

The weakness was disclosed 03/06/2024. The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-52603 since 03/02/2024. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 239850 (TencentOS Server 4: kernel (TSSA-2024:0980)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.77, 6.6.16, 6.7.4 or 6.8-rc1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch e30b52a2ea3d/fd3486a89377/7aa33854477d/e4ce01c25ccb/e4cbc857d75d/edff092a5926/6e2902ecc77e/27e56f59bab5 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (239850). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• 6.7.3

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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