CVE-2025-39735

jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get()

High · published April 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get()

During the "size_check" label in ea_get(), the code checks if the extended

attribute list (xattr) size matches ea_size. If not, it logs

"ea_get: invalid extended attribute" and calls print_hex_dump().

Here, EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf->xattr) returns 4110417968, which exceeds

INT_MAX (2,147,483,647). Then ea_size is clamped:

int size = clamp_t(int, ea_size, 0, EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf->xattr));

Although clamp_t aims to bound ea_size between 0 and 4110417968, the upper

limit is treated as an int, causing an overflow above 2^31 - 1. This leads

"size" to wrap around and become negative (-184549328).

The "size" is then passed to print_hex_dump() (called "len" in

print_hex_dump()), it is passed as type size_t (an unsigned

type), this is then stored inside a variable called

"int remaining", which is then assigned to "int linelen" which

is then passed to hex_dump_to_buffer(). In print_hex_dump()

the for loop, iterates through 0 to len-1, where len is

18446744073525002176, calling hex_dump_to_buffer()

on each iteration:

for (i = 0; i < len; i += rowsize) {

linelen = min(remaining, rowsize);

remaining -= rowsize;

hex_dump_to_buffer(ptr + i, linelen, rowsize, groupsize,

linebuf, sizeof(linebuf), ascii);

...

}

The expected stopping condition (i < len) is effectively broken

since len is corrupted and very large. This eventually leads to

the "ptr+i" being passed to hex_dump_to_buffer() to get closer

to the end of the actual bounds of "ptr", eventually an out of

bounds access is done in hex_dump_to_buffer() in the following

for loop:

for (j = 0; j < len; j++) {

if (linebuflen < lx + 2)

goto overflow2;

ch = ptr[j];

...

}

To fix this we should validate "EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf->xattr)"

before it is utilised.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00296 · 21.1th percentile
Published
2025-04-18T07:01Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 APR 07:01Z
    jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get()
    cvelistv5