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GHSA-Q844-WPFG-W2H9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-13 09:30 – Updated: 2024-09-19 15:30

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

libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir

After we switch tmpfs dir operations from simple_dir_operations to simple_offset_dir_operations, every rename happened will fill new dentry to dest dir's maple tree(&SHMEM_I(inode)->dir_offsets->mt) with a free key starting with octx->newx_offset, and then set newx_offset equals to free key + 1. This will lead to infinite readdir combine with rename happened at the same time, which fail generic/736 in xfstests(detail show as below).

create 5000 files(1 2 3...) under one dir
call readdir(man 3 readdir) once, and get one entry
rename(entry, "TEMPFILE"), then rename("TEMPFILE", entry)
loop 2~3, until readdir return nothing or we loop too many times(tmpfs break test with the second condition)

We choose the same logic what commit 9b378f6ad48cf ("btrfs: fix infinite directory reads") to fix it, record the last_index when we open dir, and do not emit the entry which index >= last_index. The file->private_data now used in offset dir can use directly to do this, and we also update the last_index when we llseek the dir file.

[brauner: only update last_index after seek when offset is zero like Jan suggested]

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2024-46701 (GCVE-0-2024-46701)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-13 06:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:34

Title

libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir After we switch tmpfs dir operations from simple_dir_operations to simple_offset_dir_operations, every rename happened will fill new dentry to dest dir's maple tree(&SHMEM_I(inode)->dir_offsets->mt) with a free key starting with octx->newx_offset, and then set newx_offset equals to free key + 1. This will lead to infinite readdir combine with rename happened at the same time, which fail generic/736 in xfstests(detail show as below). 1. create 5000 files(1 2 3...) under one dir 2. call readdir(man 3 readdir) once, and get one entry 3. rename(entry, "TEMPFILE"), then rename("TEMPFILE", entry) 4. loop 2~3, until readdir return nothing or we loop too many times(tmpfs break test with the second condition) We choose the same logic what commit 9b378f6ad48cf ("btrfs: fix infinite directory reads") to fix it, record the last_index when we open dir, and do not emit the entry which index >= last_index. The file->private_data now used in offset dir can use directly to do this, and we also update the last_index when we llseek the dir file. [brauner: only update last_index after seek when offset is zero like Jan suggested]

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-29 15:04 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/308b4fc2403b33589…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64a7ce76fb901bf9f…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1 , < 308b4fc2403b335894592ee9dc212a5e58bb309f (git) Affected: a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1 , < 64a7ce76fb901bf9f9c36cf5d681328fc0fd4b5a (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver) Unaffected: 6.10.7 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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