CVE-2021-47458

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 4.4.290 - Out-of-bounds Write in OCFS2 Cluster Stack String Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: mount fails with buffer overflow in strlen Starting with kernel 5.11 built with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE mouting an ocfs2 filesystem with either o2cb or pcmk cluster stack fails with the trace below. Problem seems to be that strings for cluster stack and cluster name are not guaranteed to be null terminated in the disk representation, while strlcpy assumes that the source string is always null terminated. This causes a read outside of the source string triggering the buffer overflow detection. detected buffer overflow in strlen ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at lib/string.c:1149! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 910 Comm: mount.ocfs2 Not tainted 5.14.0-1-amd64 #1 Debian 5.14.6-2 RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0xf/0x11 ... Call Trace: ocfs2_initialize_super.isra.0.cold+0xc/0x18 [ocfs2] ocfs2_fill_super+0x359/0x19b0 [ocfs2] mount_bdev+0x185/0x1b0 legacy_get_tree+0x27/0x40 vfs_get_tree+0x25/0xb0 path_mount+0x454/0xa20 __x64_sys_mount+0x103/0x140 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (20)
Linux/Linux < 3.14
Linux/Linux 3.14
Linux/Linux 4.14.253 - 4.14.*
Linux/Linux 4.19.214 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 4.4.290 - 4.4.*
Linux/Linux 4.9.288 - 4.9.*
Linux/Linux 5.10.76 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.14.15 - 5.14.*
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.4.156 - 5.4.*
... and 10 more
Published May 22, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026