High · published December 24, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: stop parsing non-compact HEAD index if clusterofs is invalid
Syzbot generated a crafted image [1] with a non-compact HEAD index of
clusterofs 33024 while valid numbers should be 0 ~ lclustersize-1,
which causes the following unexpected behavior as below:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffff52101a3fff9
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 23ffed067 P4D 23ffed067 PUD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 4398 Comm: kworker/u5:1 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc6-syzkaller-g09a9639e56c0 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/30/2023
Workqueue: erofs_worker z_erofs_decompressqueue_work
RIP: 0010:z_erofs_decompress_queue+0xb7e/0x2b40
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
z_erofs_decompressqueue_work+0x99/0xe0
process_one_work+0x8f6/0x1170
worker_thread+0xa63/0x1210
kthread+0x270/0x300
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Note that normal images or images using compact indexes are not
impacted. Let's fix this now.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]