CVE-2024-50250

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Data Integrity and Confidentiality Violation in fsdax dax_unshare_iter

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks The code that copies data from srcmap to iomap in dax_unshare_iter is very very broken, which bfoster's recent fsx changes have exposed. If the pos and len passed to dax_file_unshare are not aligned to an fsblock boundary, the iter pos and length in the _iter function will reflect this unalignment. dax_iomap_direct_access always returns a pointer to the start of the kmapped fsdax page, even if its pos argument is in the middle of that page. This is catastrophic for data integrity when iter->pos is not aligned to a page, because daddr/saddr do not point to the same byte in the file as iter->pos. Hence we corrupt user data by copying it to the wrong place. If iter->pos + iomap_length() in the _iter function not aligned to a page, then we fail to copy a full block, and only partially populate the destination block. This is catastrophic for data confidentiality because we expose stale pmem contents. Fix both of these issues by aligning copy_pos/copy_len to a page boundary (remember, this is fsdax so 1 fsblock == 1 base page) so that we always copy full blocks. We're not done yet -- there's no call to invalidate_inode_pages2_range, so programs that have the file range mmap'd will continue accessing the old memory mapping after the file metadata updates have completed. Be careful with the return value -- if the unshare succeeds, we still need to return the number of bytes that the iomap iter thinks we're operating on.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel < 6.1.116linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.11.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.2
Linux/Linux 1bec6782a25c9b92c203ea7a1b3e3dc6a468cbc4 - bdbc96c23197d773a7d1bf03e4f11de593b0ff28
Linux/Linux 6.1.113 - 6.1.116
Linux/Linux 6.1.116 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.11.7 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.2
Linux/Linux 6.6.60 - 6.6.*
... and 5 more
Published Nov 09, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026