CVE-2024-50015 Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: dax: fix overflowing extents beyond inode size when partially writing

The dax_iomap_rw() does two things in each iteration: map written blocks and copy user data to blocks. If the process is killed by user(See signal handling in dax_iomap_iter()), the copied data will be returned and added on inode size, which means that the length of written extents may exceed the inode size, then fsck will fail. An example is given as:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=4M count=1 dax_iomap_rw iomap_iter // round 1 ext4_iomap_begin ext4_iomap_alloc // allocate 02M extents(written flag) dax_iomap_iter // copy 2M data iomap_iter // round 2 iomap_iter_advance iter->pos += iter->processed // iter->pos = 2M ext4_iomap_begin ext4_iomap_alloc // allocate 24M extents(written flag) dax_iomap_iter fatal_signal_pending done = iter->pos - iocb->ki_pos // done = 2M ext4_handle_inode_extension ext4_update_inode_size // inode size = 2M

fsck reports: Inode 13, i_size is 2097152, should be 4194304. Fix?

Fix the problem by truncating extents if the written length is smaller than expected.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50015
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5efccdee4a7d507a483f20f880b809cc4eaef14d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c30a9a8610c314554997f86370140746aa35661
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f331f51515bdb3ebc8d0963131af367ef468f6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abfaa876b948baaea4d14f21a1963789845c8b4c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dda898d7ffe85931f9cca6d702a51f33717c501e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec0dd451e236c46e4858d53e9e82bae7797a7af5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a7c342326f6ad1dfdb30a18dd013c70f5e9669