Bug 809687 (CVE-2012-2100)

Summary: CVE-2012-2100 kernel: ext4: fix inconsistency in ext4_fill_flex_info()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: agordeev, aiyengar, anton, arozansk, bhu, dhoward, esandeen, fhrbata, jkacur, jlieskov, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, plougher, pmatouse, rt-maint, rwheeler, sforsber, vgoyal, williams
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Bug Depends On: 809688, 809689, 809690, 809691, 809692, 809693    
Bug Blocks: 809684    

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2012-04-04 04:11:07 UTC 
Commit 503358ae01b70ce6909d19dd01287093f6b6271c ("ext4: avoid divide by zero when trying to mount a corrupted file system") fixes CVE-2009-4307 by performing a sanity check on s_log_groups_per_flex, since it can be set to a bogus value by an attacker.

More info from Wang Xi:
The first commit (503358ae) fixes the division by zero.  The fix is not perfect because:
1) Theoretically, a standard-conforming C compiler could generate code that is still vulnerable to division by zero, but I was not aware of any compilers doing that.
2) Logically, we should have groups_per_flex = 2^s_log_groups_per_flex, and the fix doesn't really ensure that.  This is obviously not good, but not sure how bad the consequence would be.

Introduced by:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/503358ae01b70ce6909d19dd01287093f6b6271c

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/d50f2ab6f050311dbf7b8f5501b25f0bf64a439b
Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2012-04-04 04:19:24 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 809693]
Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2012-04-04 04:24:58 UTC 
Upstream commit d50f2ab6 suffers from a buffer overflow issue, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/20/422.
Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2012-04-12 20:25:06 UTC 
This was assigned the name CVE-2012-2100:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/11
Comment 12 Vincent Danen 2012-11-01 18:21:31 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-13 15:37:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:1445 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1445.html
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-18 22:34:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1580 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html