Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception Affecting kernel package, versions <0:4.14.238-182.421.amzn2
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- published 14 Aug 2024
- disclosed 25 Mar 2024
Introduced: 25 Mar 2024
CVE-2021-47145 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel to version 0:4.14.238-182.421.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2021-1685.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not BUG_ON in link_to_fixup_dir
While doing error injection testing I got the following panic
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/tree-log.c:1862! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 7836 Comm: mount Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1+ #305 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:link_to_fixup_dir+0xd5/0xe0 RSP: 0018:ffffb5800180fa30 EFLAGS: 00010216 RAX: fffffffffffffffb RBX: 00000000fffffffb RCX: ffff8f595287faf0 RDX: ffffb5800180fa37 RSI: ffff8f5954978800 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff8f5953af9450 R08: 0000000000000019 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 000151f408682970 R11: 0000000120021001 R12: ffff8f5954978800 R13: ffff8f595287faf0 R14: ffff8f5953c77dd0 R15: 0000000000000065 FS: 00007fc5284c8c40(0000) GS:ffff8f59bbd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fc5287f47c0 CR3: 000000011275e002 CR4: 0000000000370ee0 Call Trace: replay_one_buffer+0x409/0x470 ? btree_read_extent_buffer_pages+0xd0/0x110 walk_up_log_tree+0x157/0x1e0 walk_log_tree+0xa6/0x1d0 btrfs_recover_log_trees+0x1da/0x360 ? replay_one_extent+0x7b0/0x7b0 open_ctree+0x1486/0x1720 btrfs_mount_root.cold+0x12/0xea ? __kmalloc_track_caller+0x12f/0x240 legacy_get_tree+0x24/0x40 vfs_get_tree+0x22/0xb0 vfs_kern_mount.part.0+0x71/0xb0 btrfs_mount+0x10d/0x380 ? vfs_parse_fs_string+0x4d/0x90 legacy_get_tree+0x24/0x40 vfs_get_tree+0x22/0xb0 path_mount+0x433/0xa10 __x64_sys_mount+0xe3/0x120 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
We can get -EIO or any number of legitimate errors from btrfs_search_slot(), panicing here is not the appropriate response. The error path for this code handles errors properly, simply return the error.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-47145
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0eaf383c6a4a83c09f60fd07a1bea9f1a9181611
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ed102453aa1cd12fefde8f6b60b9519b0b1f003
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6eccfb28f8dca70c9b1b3bb3194ca54cbe73a9fa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76bfd8ac20bebeae599452a03dfc5724c0475dcf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e13db503918820e6333811cdc6f151dcea5090a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91df99a6eb50d5a1bc70fff4a09a0b7ae6aab96d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b545442133580dcb2f2496133bf850824d41255c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e934c4ee17b33bafb0444f2f9766cda7166d3c40