nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_touch_buffer tracepoint (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-53131
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_touch_buffer tracepoint Patch series "nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref bugs on block tracepoints". This series fixes null pointer dereference bugs that occur when using nilfs2 and two block-related tracepoints. This patch (of 2): It has been reported that when using "block:block_touch_buffer" tracepoint, touch_buffer() called from __nilfs_get_folio_block() causes a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when KASAN is enabled. This happens because since the tracepoint was added in touch_buffer(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device structure. In the current implementation, the block_device structure is set after the function returns to the caller. Here, touch_buffer() is used to mark the folio/page that owns the buffer head as accessed, but the common search helper for folio/page used by the caller function was optimized to mark the folio/page as accessed when it was reimplemented a long time ago, eliminating the need to call touch_buffer() here in the first place. So this solves the issue by eliminating the touch_buffer() call itself.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f < 085556bf8c70e2629e02e79268dac3016a08b8bf ; affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f < 6438f3f42cda825f6f59b4e45ac3a1da28a6f2c9 ; affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f < b017697a517f8779ada4e8ce1c2c75dbf60a2636 ; affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f < 19c71cdd77973f99a9adc3190130bc3aa7ae5423 ; affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f < 3b2a4fd9bbee77afdd3ed5a05a0c02b6cde8d3b9 ; affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f < 59b49ca67cca7b007a5afd3de0283c8008157665
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.9 ; unaffected 0 < 3.9 ; unaffected 4.19.325 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.287 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.231 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.174 ≤ 5.15.*

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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