CVE-2024-26956

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via nilfs2 DAT Corruption Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings Patch series "nilfs2: fix kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()". This resolves a kernel BUG reported by syzbot. Since there are two flaws involved, I've made each one a separate patch. The first patch alone resolves the syzbot-reported bug, but I think both fixes should be sent to stable, so I've tagged them as such. This patch (of 2): Syzbot has reported a kernel bug in submit_bh_wbc() when writing file data to a nilfs2 file system whose metadata is corrupted. There are two flaws involved in this issue. The first flaw is that when nilfs_get_block() locates a data block using btree or direct mapping, if the disk address translation routine nilfs_dat_translate() fails with internal code -ENOENT due to DAT metadata corruption, it can be passed back to nilfs_get_block(). This causes nilfs_get_block() to misidentify an existing block as non-existent, causing both data block lookup and insertion to fail inconsistently. The second flaw is that nilfs_get_block() returns a successful status in this inconsistent state. This causes the caller __block_write_begin_int() or others to request a read even though the buffer is not mapped, resulting in a BUG_ON check for the BH_Mapped flag in submit_bh_wbc() failing. This fixes the first issue by changing the return value to code -EINVAL when a conversion using DAT fails with code -ENOENT, avoiding the conflicting condition that leads to the kernel bug described above. Here, code -EINVAL indicates that metadata corruption was detected during the block lookup, which will be properly handled as a file system error and converted to -EIO when passing through the nilfs2 bmap layer.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.2%
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

Status published
Products (30)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
linux/Kernel 2.6.31 - 4.19.312linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.274linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.154linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.84linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.215linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.24linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.12linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.8.3linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.31
... and 20 more
Published May 01, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026