CVE-2022-49688

afs: Fix dynamic root getattr

published February 26, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

afs: Fix dynamic root getattr

The recent patch to make afs_getattr consult the server didn't account

for the pseudo-inodes employed by the dynamic root-type afs superblock

not having a volume or a server to access, and thus an oops occurs if

such a directory is stat'd.

Fix this by checking to see if the vnode->volume pointer actually points

anywhere before following it in afs_getattr().

This can be tested by stat'ing a directory in /afs. It may be

sufficient just to do "ls /afs" and the oops looks something like:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020

...

RIP: 0010:afs_getattr+0x8b/0x14b

...

Call Trace:

<TASK>

vfs_statx+0x79/0xf5

vfs_fstatat+0x49/0x62

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00298 · 21.4th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:24Z
    afs: Fix dynamic root getattr
    cvelistv5