Bug 2320461 (CVE-2024-49900)

Summary:	CVE-2024-49900 kernel: jfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 19:03:33 UTC

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

jfs: Fix uninit-value access of new_ea in ea_buffer

syzbot reports that lzo1x_1_do_compress is using uninit-value:

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in lzo1x_1_do_compress+0x19f9/0x2510 lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c:178

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Uninit was stored to memory at:
 ea_put fs/jfs/xattr.c:639 [inline]

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Local variable ea_buf created at:
 __jfs_setxattr+0x5d/0x1ae0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:662
 __jfs_xattr_set+0xe6/0x1f0 fs/jfs/xattr.c:934

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The reason is ea_buf->new_ea is not initialized properly.

Fix this by using memset to empty its content at the beginning
in ea_get().

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-10-21 22:29:10 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102120-CVE-2024-49900-1a7d@gregkh/T