CVE-2024-43914

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via RAID5 Reshape Reassembly

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5: avoid BUG_ON() while continue reshape after reassembling Currently, mdadm support --revert-reshape to abort the reshape while reassembling, as the test 07revert-grow. However, following BUG_ON() can be triggerred by the test: kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:6278! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI irq event stamp: 158985 CPU: 6 PID: 891 Comm: md0_reshape Not tainted 6.9.0-03335-g7592a0b0049a #94 RIP: 0010:reshape_request+0x3f1/0xe60 Call Trace: <TASK> raid5_sync_request+0x43d/0x550 md_do_sync+0xb7a/0x2110 md_thread+0x294/0x2b0 kthread+0x147/0x1c0 ret_from_fork+0x59/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> Root cause is that --revert-reshape update the raid_disks from 5 to 4, while reshape position is still set, and after reassembling the array, reshape position will be read from super block, then during reshape the checking of 'writepos' that is caculated by old reshape position will fail. Fix this panic the easy way first, by converting the BUG_ON() to WARN_ON(), and stop the reshape if checkings fail. Noted that mdadm must fix --revert-shape as well, and probably md/raid should enhance metadata validation as well, however this means reassemble will fail and there must be user tools to fix the wrong metadata.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.4%
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

Status published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel 2.6.30 - 4.19.320linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.282linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.165linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.105linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.224linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.46linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.5linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.30
Linux/Linux 2.6.30
Linux/Linux 4.19.320 - 4.19.*
... and 16 more
Published Aug 26, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026