CVE-2024-50250

CVE-2024-50250

High · published November 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks

The code that copies data from srcmap to iomap in dax_unshare_iter is

very very broken, which bfoster's recent fsx changes have exposed.

If the pos and len passed to dax_file_unshare are not aligned to an

fsblock boundary, the iter pos and length in the _iter function will

reflect this unalignment.

dax_iomap_direct_access always returns a pointer to the start of the

kmapped fsdax page, even if its pos argument is in the middle of that

page. This is catastrophic for data integrity when iter->pos is not

aligned to a page, because daddr/saddr do not point to the same byte in

the file as iter->pos. Hence we corrupt user data by copying it to the

wrong place.

If iter->pos + iomap_length() in the _iter function not aligned to a

page, then we fail to copy a full block, and only partially populate the

destination block. This is catastrophic for data confidentiality

because we expose stale pmem contents.

Fix both of these issues by aligning copy_pos/copy_len to a page

boundary (remember, this is fsdax so 1 fsblock == 1 base page) so that

we always copy full blocks.

We're not done yet -- there's no call to invalidate_inode_pages2_range,

so programs that have the file range mmap'd will continue accessing the

old memory mapping after the file metadata updates have completed.

Be careful with the return value -- if the unshare succeeds, we still

need to return the number of bytes that the iomap iter thinks we're

operating on.

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
0.00228 · 12.9th percentile
Published
2024-11-09T16:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.1.113, < 6.1.1166.1.116
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.606.6.60
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.11.76.11.7
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References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 NOV 10:14Z
    fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks
    cvelistv5