CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-52569

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-617

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.1.56) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.6) • linux linux kernel 6.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References