CVE-2023-52569

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Reachable Assertion in Btrfs Delayed Directory Index Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item Instead of calling BUG() when we fail to insert a delayed dir index item into the delayed node's tree, we can just release all the resources we have allocated/acquired before and return the error to the caller. This is fine because all existing call chains undo anything they have done before calling btrfs_insert_delayed_dir_index() or BUG_ON (when creating pending snapshots in the transaction commit path). So remove the BUG() call and do proper error handling. This relates to a syzbot report linked below, but does not fix it because it only prevents hitting a BUG(), it does not fix the issue where somehow we attempt to use twice the same index number for different index items.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-617
Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 6.5
Linux/Linux 5.15.149 - 5.16
Linux/Linux 5441532ffc9c8c9f7cab0f8722e6d60a0b5e1259
Linux/Linux 6.4.12 - 6.5
Linux/Linux 6.5
Linux/Linux 6.5.6 - 6.5.*
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux 79cf35e16dd5b8639909d4df957503b84de30406
Linux/Linux 9b378f6ad48cfa195ed868db9123c09ee7ec5ea2 - 2c58c3931ede7cd08cbecf1f1a4acaf0a04a41a9
Linux/Linux 9b378f6ad48cfa195ed868db9123c09ee7ec5ea2 - d10fd53393cc5de4b9cf1a4b8f9984f0a037aa51
... and 2 more
Published Mar 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026