CVE-2025-37742

jfs: Fix uninit-value access of imap allocated in the diMount() function

published May 1, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

jfs: Fix uninit-value access of imap allocated in the diMount() function

syzbot reports that hex_dump_to_buffer is using uninit-value:

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hex_dump_to_buffer+0x888/0x1100 lib/hexdump.c:171

hex_dump_to_buffer+0x888/0x1100 lib/hexdump.c:171

print_hex_dump+0x13d/0x3e0 lib/hexdump.c:276

diFree+0x5ba/0x4350 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:876

jfs_evict_inode+0x510/0x550 fs/jfs/inode.c:156

evict+0x723/0xd10 fs/inode.c:796

iput_final fs/inode.c:1946 [inline]

iput+0x97b/0xdb0 fs/inode.c:1972

txUpdateMap+0xf3e/0x1150 fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:2367

txLazyCommit fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:2664 [inline]

jfs_lazycommit+0x627/0x11d0 fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c:2733

kthread+0x6b9/0xef0 kernel/kthread.c:464

ret_from_fork+0x6d/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Uninit was created at:

slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4121 [inline]

slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4164 [inline]

__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x8e3/0xdf0 mm/slub.c:4320

kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:901 [inline]

diMount+0x61/0x7f0 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:105

jfs_mount+0xa8e/0x11d0 fs/jfs/jfs_mount.c:176

jfs_fill_super+0xa47/0x17c0 fs/jfs/super.c:523

get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6ec/0x910 fs/super.c:1636

get_tree_bdev+0x37/0x50 fs/super.c:1659

jfs_get_tree+0x34/0x40 fs/jfs/super.c:635

vfs_get_tree+0xb1/0x5a0 fs/super.c:1814

do_new_mount+0x71f/0x15e0 fs/namespace.c:3560

path_mount+0x742/0x1f10 fs/namespace.c:3887

do_mount fs/namespace.c:3900 [inline]

__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4111 [inline]

__se_sys_mount+0x71f/0x800 fs/namespace.c:4088

__x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:4088

x64_sys_call+0x39bf/0x3c30 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

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The reason is that imap is not properly initialized after memory

allocation. It will cause the snprintf() function to write uninitialized

data into linebuf within hex_dump_to_buffer().

Fix this by using kzalloc instead of kmalloc to clear its content at the

beginning in diMount().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00191 · 8.3th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T12:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 12:55Z
    jfs: Fix uninit-value access of imap allocated in the diMount() function
    cvelistv5