Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools 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:

NFSD: Fix READDIR buffer overflow

If a client sends a READDIR count argument that is too small (say, zero), then the buffer size calculation in the new init_dirlist helper functions results in an underflow, allowing the XDR stream functions to write beyond the actual buffer.

This calculation has always been suspect. NFSD has never sanity- checked the READDIR count argument, but the old entry encoders managed the problem correctly.

With the commits below, entry encoding changed, exposing the underflow to the pointer arithmetic in xdr_reserve_space().

Modern NFS clients attempt to retrieve as much data as possible for each READDIR request. Also, we have no unit tests that exercise the behavior of READDIR at the lower bound of @count values. Thus this case was missed during testing.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47107
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53b1119a6e5028b125f431a0116ba73510d82a72
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e291a6a28d32545ed2fd959a8165144d1724df1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eabc0aab98e5218ceecd82069b0d6fdfff5ee885