Vulnerability · Published Jul 12, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-40955ext4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists()

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 15% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 85.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists() We can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds with the following commands: mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/$disk 10G mount /dev/$disk /tmp/test echo 2147483647 > /sys/fs/ext4/$disk/mb_group_prealloc echo test > /tmp/test/file && sync ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888121b9d0f0 by task kworker/u2:0/11 CPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/u2:0 Tainted: GL 6.7.0-next-20240118 #521 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x2c/0x50 kasan_report+0xb6/0xf0 ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists+0x8a/0x200 [ext4] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x19e9/0x2370 [ext4] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x88a/0x1370 [ext4] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x14f7/0x2390 [ext4] ext4_map_blocks+0x569/0xea0 [ext4] ext4_do_writepages+0x10f6/0x1bc0 [ext4] [...] ================================================================== The flow of issue triggering is as follows: // Set s_mb_group_prealloc to 2147483647 via sysfs ext4_mb_new_blocks ext4_mb_normalize_request ext4_mb_normalize_group_request ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mb_group_prealloc ext4_mb_regular_allocator ext4_mb_choose_next_group ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail mb_avg_fragment_size_order order = fls(len) - 2 = 29 ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists frag_list = &sbi->s_mb_avg_fragment_size[order] if (list_empty(frag_list)) // Trigger SOOB! At 4k block size, the length of the s_mb_avg_fragment_size list is 14, but an oversized s_mb_group_prealloc is set, causing slab-out-of-bounds to be triggered by an attempt to access an element at index 29. Add a new attr_id attr_clusters_in_group with values in the range [0, sbi->s_clusters_per_group] and declare mb_group_prealloc as that type to fix the issue. In addition avoid returning an order from mb_avg_fragment_size_order() greater than MB_NUM_ORDERS(sb) and reduce some useless loops.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.9.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40955
Debian:14linux6.9.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-44.44UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1015.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1015.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1014.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1014.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1014.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1014.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1010.13UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-45.45~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-44.44.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-44.44.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1013.14UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1013.14.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1012.12~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1011.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-44.44.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-44.44.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-40955

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 7e170922f06bf46effa7c57f6035fc463d6edc7e – before 677ff4589f1501578fa903a25bb14831d06079927e170922f06bf46effa7c57f6035fc463d6edc7e – before b829687ae1229224262bcabf49accfa2dbf8db067e170922f06bf46effa7c57f6035fc463d6edc7e – before 13df4d44a3aaabe61cd01d277b6ee23ead2a5206
Linux Linux 6.5

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