Description

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

btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned

[BUG]
There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to
various problems, including:

- "unable to find chunk map" errors
BTRFS info (device vdb): scrub: started on devid 1
BTRFS critical (device vdb): unable to find chunk map for logical 2214744064 length 4096
BTRFS critical (device vdb): unable to find chunk map for logical 2214744064 length 45056

This would lead to unrepariable errors.

- Use-after-free KASAN reports:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __blk_rq_map_sg+0x18f/0x7c0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881013c9040 by task btrfs/909
CPU: 0 PID: 909 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 6.7.0-x64v3-dbg #11 c50636e9419a8354555555245df535e380563b2b
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 2023.11-2 12/24/2023
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x43/0x60
print_report+0xcf/0x640
kasan_report+0xa6/0xd0
__blk_rq_map_sg+0x18f/0x7c0
virtblk_prep_rq.isra.0+0x215/0x6a0 [virtio_blk 19a65eeee9ae6fcf02edfad39bb9ddee07dcdaff]
virtio_queue_rqs+0xc4/0x310 [virtio_blk 19a65eeee9ae6fcf02edfad39bb9ddee07dcdaff]
blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x780/0x860
__blk_flush_plug+0x1ba/0x220
blk_finish_plug+0x3b/0x60
submit_initial_group_read+0x10a/0x290 [btrfs e57987a360bed82fe8756dcd3e0de5406ccfe965]
flush_scrub_stripe...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26616

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/642b9c520ef2f104277ad1f902f8526edbe087fb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34de0f04684ec00c093a0455648be055f0e8e24f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f546c4282673497a06ecb6190b50ae7f6c85b02f

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