Bug 2300433 (CVE-2024-41059)

Summary: CVE-2024-41059 kernel: hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel 4.19.319, kernel 5.4.281, kernel 5.10.223, kernel 5.15.164, kernel 6.1.101, kernel 6.6.42, kernel 6.9.11, kernel 6.10 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-29 15:42:31 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name

[syzbot reported]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in sized_strscpy+0xc4/0x160
 sized_strscpy+0xc4/0x160
 copy_name+0x2af/0x320 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:411
 hfsplus_listxattr+0x11e9/0x1a50 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:750
 vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:493 [inline]
 listxattr+0x1f3/0x6b0 fs/xattr.c:840
 path_listxattr fs/xattr.c:864 [inline]
 __do_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:876 [inline]
 __se_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:873 [inline]
 __x64_sys_listxattr+0x16b/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:873
 x64_sys_call+0x2ba0/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:195
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:3877 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3918 [inline]
 kmalloc_trace+0x57b/0xbe0 mm/slub.c:4065
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:628 [inline]
 hfsplus_listxattr+0x4cc/0x1a50 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:699
 vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:493 [inline]
 listxattr+0x1f3/0x6b0 fs/xattr.c:840
 path_listxattr fs/xattr.c:864 [inline]
 __do_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:876 [inline]
 __se_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:873 [inline]
 __x64_sys_listxattr+0x16b/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:873
 x64_sys_call+0x2ba0/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:195
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[Fix]
When allocating memory to strbuf, initialize memory to 0.
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 11:12:43 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024072905-CVE-2024-41059-30cc@gregkh/T
Comment 2 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 11:13:03 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301596]