Linux Kernel up to 6.10.13/6.11.2 f2fs get_new_segment denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.13/6.11.2. This affects the function get_new_segment of the component f2fs. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-49887. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.13/6.11.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function get_new_segment of the component f2fs. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection f2fs: fix to don't panic system for no free segment fault injection syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below: F2FS-fs (loop0): inject no free segment in get_new_segment of __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167 F2FS-fs (loop0): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 7 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748! CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5109 Comm: syz-executor304 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00363-g89f5e14d05b4 #0 RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline] RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836 Call Trace: __allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3167 f2fs_allocate_new_section fs/f2fs/segment.c:3181 [inline] f2fs_allocate_pinning_section+0xfa/0x4e0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3195 f2fs_expand_inode_data+0x5d6/0xbb0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1799 f2fs_fallocate+0x448/0x960 fs/f2fs/file.c:1903 vfs_fallocate+0x553/0x6c0 fs/open.c:334 do_vfs_ioctl+0x2592/0x2e50 fs/ioctl.c:886 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:905 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0x81/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2748 [inline] RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f61/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2836 The root cause is when we inject no free segment fault into f2fs, we should not panic system, fix it.

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-49887 since 10/21/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216493 (Ubuntu 24.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7276-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.10.14 or 6.11.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 9f6e7a0512a5/645ec43760e8/65a6ce4726c2 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 databases at Tenable (216493) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3251). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• NetApp StorageGRID
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Kyocera Printer
• NetApp AFF
• NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Manager
• SUSE openSUSE
• IBM Security Guardium
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Avamar
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• NetApp FAS
• SolarWinds Security Event Manager
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• Dell PowerScale OneFS

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.10.0
• 6.10.1
• 6.10.2
• 6.10.3
• 6.10.4
• 6.10.5
• 6.10.6
• 6.10.7
• 6.10.8
• 6.10.9
• 6.10.10
• 6.10.11
• 6.10.12
• 6.10.13
• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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