CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50250
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-11-09
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.113 < 6.1.116)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.60)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50793801fc7f6d08def48754fb0f0706b0cfc394 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e9c0f500b42216ef930f5c0d1703989a451913d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bc18bb476e50e32e5d08f2734d63d63e0fa528c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdbc96c23197d773a7d1bf03e4f11de593b0ff28 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org