Bug 547255 (CVE-2009-4308)

Summary: CVE-2009-4308 kernel: ext4: Avoid null pointer dereference when decoding EROFS w/o a journal
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: arozansk, atangrin, dhoward, esandeen, jrusnack, kmcmartin, lwang, rkhan, tcallawa
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-12-14 05:56:16 UTC
Description of problem:
ext4: Avoid null pointer dereference when decoding EROFS w/o a journal
    
We need to check to make sure a journal is present before checking the journal flags in ext4_decode_error().

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/78f1ddbb498283c2445c11b0dfa666424c301803

Reference:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37658

Comment 3 Aristeu Rozanski 2010-01-26 13:40:24 UTC
Patch present on the current RHEL6 git tree

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-17 00:19:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0147 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0147.html