CVE-2023-53100

CVE-2023-53100

High · published May 2, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline_data

Syzbot found the following issue:

EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 without journal. Quota mode: none.

fscrypt: AES-256-CTS-CBC using implementation "cts-cbc-aes-aesni"

fscrypt: AES-256-XTS using implementation "xts-aes-aesni"

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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5071 at mm/page_alloc.c:5525 __alloc_pages+0x30a/0x560 mm/page_alloc.c:5525

Modules linked in:

CPU: 1 PID: 5071 Comm: syz-executor263 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022

RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x30a/0x560 mm/page_alloc.c:5525

RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c2f1c0 EFLAGS: 00010246

RAX: ffffc90003c2f220 RBX: 0000000000000014 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: 0000000000000028 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90003c2f248

RBP: ffffc90003c2f2d8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffc90003c2f220

R10: fffff52000785e49 R11: 1ffff92000785e44 R12: 0000000000040d40

R13: 1ffff92000785e40 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff92000785e3c

FS: 0000555556c0d300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007f95d5e04138 CR3: 00000000793aa000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:237 [inline]

alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:260 [inline]

__kmalloc_large_node+0x95/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:1113

__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:956 [inline]

__kmalloc+0xfe/0x190 mm/slab_common.c:981

kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:584 [inline]

kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:720 [inline]

ext4_update_inline_data+0x236/0x6b0 fs/ext4/inline.c:346

ext4_update_inline_dir fs/ext4/inline.c:1115 [inline]

ext4_try_add_inline_entry+0x328/0x990 fs/ext4/inline.c:1307

ext4_add_entry+0x5a4/0xeb0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2385

ext4_add_nondir+0x96/0x260 fs/ext4/namei.c:2772

ext4_create+0x36c/0x560 fs/ext4/namei.c:2817

lookup_open fs/namei.c:3413 [inline]

open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline]

path_openat+0x12ac/0x2dd0 fs/namei.c:3711

do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3741

do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310

do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline]

__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1342 [inline]

__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1337 [inline]

__x64_sys_openat+0x243/0x290 fs/open.c:1337

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Above issue happens as follows:

ext4_iget

ext4_find_inline_data_nolock ->i_inline_off=164 i_inline_size=60

ext4_try_add_inline_entry

__ext4_mark_inode_dirty

ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea ->i_extra_isize=32 s_want_extra_isize=44

ext4_xattr_shift_entries

->after shift i_inline_off is incorrect, actually is change to 176

ext4_try_add_inline_entry

ext4_update_inline_dir

get_max_inline_xattr_value_size

if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off)

entry = (struct ext4_xattr_entry *)((void *)raw_inode +

EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off);

free += EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(le32_to_cpu(entry->e_value_size));

->As entry is incorrect, then 'free' may be negative

ext4_update_inline_data

value = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);

-> len is unsigned int, maybe very large, then trigger warning when

'kzalloc()'

To resolve the above issue we need to update 'i_inline_off' after

'ext4_xattr_shift_entries()'. We do not need to set

EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag here, since ext4_mark_inode_dirty()

already sets this flag if needed. Setting EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA

when it is needed may trigger a BUG_ON in ext4_writepages().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00214 · 11.2th percentile
Published
2025-05-02T20:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 4.14.3104.14.310
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.15, < 4.19.2784.19.278
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2375.4.237
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1755.10.175
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1035.15.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.206.1.20
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.2.76.2.7
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 MAY 15:55Z
    ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline_data
    cvelistv5