Bug 2363436 (CVE-2022-49879) - CVE-2022-49879 kernel: ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len
Summary: CVE-2022-49879 kernel: ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid re...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49879
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-06 01:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:04:36 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len

The rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4.  A
corrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in
ext4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir().

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413!
 ...
 RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200
  ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480
  ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0
  ext4_create+0x163/0x200
  path_openat+0x635/0xe90
  do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160
  ? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0
  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30
  do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150
  __x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0
  do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the
directory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 05:06:01 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050154-CVE-2022-49879-e897@gregkh/T


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