Bug 2540262 (CVE-2026-93235)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-93235 kernel: f2fs: fix to zero post-EOF data when extending file size | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS) in the Linux kernel. When a file is extended across an unaligned End-of-File (EOF) boundary, the kernel fails to zero out data beyond the previous EOF before writing changes to disk. A local user can exploit this vulnerability by performing file extension operations, potentially exposing stale or previously deleted disk data after a file system remount or crash recovery, resulting in an information disclosure.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to zero post-EOF data when extending file size generic/794 4s ... - output mismatch (see /share/git/fstests/results//generic/794.out.bad) --- tests/generic/794.out 2026-06-12 08:46:32.766426241 +0800 +++ /share/git/fstests/results//generic/794.out.bad 2026-07-05 18:32:55.000000000 +0800 @@ -1,4 +1,16 @@ QA output created by 794 append_write +FAIL: non-zero data in gap [4080,4096) after shutdown+remount +000000 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a >ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ< +* +001000 truncate_up ... (Run 'diff -u /share/git/fstests/tests/generic/794.out /share/git/fstests/results//generic/794.out.bad' to see the entire diff) Ran: generic/794 Failures: generic/794 Failed 1 of 1 tests Steps of generic/794: 1. write 4096 bytes to file w/ 0x5a 2. use fiemap to get PBA of first block in file 3. truncate file to 4080 4. umount; write 4096 bytes to file w/ 0x5a directly via PBA; mount 5. extend filesize via a) append 4096 from offset 4096, or b) truncate 8192, or c) fallocate 4096 from offset 4096 6. verify the gap is zeroed in memory [4080,4096) 7. sync range 4096 from offset 4096; shutdown -f (flush meta before shutdown) 8. umount; mount; verify [4080,4096) is zeroed or not. When extending file size (e.g. via truncate, fallocate, or write) across an unaligned EOF boundary, we need to ensure that post-EOF data in the partial page is zeroed out in pagecache and marked dirty, then writeback the cache to persist zeroed data before committing inode w/ updated i_size. This help to prevent stale disk data beyond the previous EOF from being exposed after remounting or crash recovery. Since f2fs is a LFS filesystem, we only support direct write via PBA in pinfile, and pinfile has section-aligned filesize, so in Android, there should no problem, but for other usage in different environment, let's fix this w/ fsync_mode=strict mount option.