Bug 2363482 (CVE-2022-49762)

Summary: CVE-2022-49762 kernel: ntfs: check overflow when iterating ATTR_RECORDs
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:06:30 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: check overflow when iterating ATTR_RECORDs

Kernel iterates over ATTR_RECORDs in mft record in ntfs_attr_find(). 
Because the ATTR_RECORDs are next to each other, kernel can get the next
ATTR_RECORD from end address of current ATTR_RECORD, through current
ATTR_RECORD length field.

The problem is that during iteration, when kernel calculates the end
address of current ATTR_RECORD, kernel may trigger an integer overflow bug
in executing `a = (ATTR_RECORD*)((u8*)a + le32_to_cpu(a->length))`.  This
may wrap, leading to a forever iteration on 32bit systems.

This patch solves it by adding some checks on calculating end address
of current ATTR_RECORD during iteration.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:30:29 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050112-CVE-2022-49762-216f@gregkh/T