Bug 2363271 (CVE-2025-37782)

Summary: CVE-2025-37782 kernel: hfs/hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read_key
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 14:01:33 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hfs/hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read_key

Syzbot reported an issue in hfs subsystem:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcpy_from_page include/linux/highmem.h:423 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read fs/hfs/bnode.c:35 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read_key+0x314/0x450 fs/hfs/bnode.c:70
Write of size 94 at addr ffff8880123cd100 by task syz-executor237/5102

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
 print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
 kasan_check_range+0x282/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 __asan_memcpy+0x40/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:106
 memcpy_from_page include/linux/highmem.h:423 [inline]
 hfs_bnode_read fs/hfs/bnode.c:35 [inline]
 hfs_bnode_read_key+0x314/0x450 fs/hfs/bnode.c:70
 hfs_brec_insert+0x7f3/0xbd0 fs/hfs/brec.c:159
 hfs_cat_create+0x41d/0xa50 fs/hfs/catalog.c:118
 hfs_mkdir+0x6c/0xe0 fs/hfs/dir.c:232
 vfs_mkdir+0x2f9/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4257
 do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4280
 __do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4300 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4298 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdir+0x6c/0x80 fs/namei.c:4298
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbdd6057a99

Add a check for key length in hfs_bnode_read_key to prevent
out-of-bounds memory access. If the key length is invalid, the
key buffer is cleared, improving stability and reliability.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:29:14 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050117-CVE-2025-37782-7cc2@gregkh/T