CVE-2022-49846: udf: Fix a slab-out-of-bounds write bug in udf_find_entry()

Published May 1, 2025
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

udf: Fix a slab-out-of-bounds write bug in udffindentry()

Syzbot reported a slab-out-of-bounds Write bug:

loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in udffindentry+0x8a5/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:253 Write of size 105 at addr ffff8880123ff896 by task syz-executor323/3610

CPU: 0 PID: 3610 Comm: syz-executor323 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller-00105-gb229b6ca5abb #0 Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/11/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> dumpstack lib/dumpstack.c:88 [inline] dumpstacklvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dumpstack.c:106 printaddressdescription+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:284 printreport+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasanreport+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:495 kasancheckrange+0x2a7/0x2e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 memcpy+0x3c/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:66 udffindentry+0x8a5/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:253 udflookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309 lookupopen fs/namei.c:3391 [inline] openlastlookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline] pathopenat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710 dofilpopen+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740 dosysopenat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310 dosysopen fs/open.c:1326 [inline] dosyscreat fs/open.c:1402 [inline] sesyscreat fs/open.c:1396 [inline] x64syscreat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] dosyscall64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7ffab0d164d9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffe1a7e6bb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIGRAX: 0000000000000055 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007ffab0d164d9 RDX: 00007ffab0d164d9 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000020000180 RBP: 00007ffab0cd5a10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00005555573552c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffab0cd5aa0 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK>

Allocated by task 3610: kasansavestack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline] kasansettrack+0x3d/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:52 kasankmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:371 [inline] kasankmalloc+0x97/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:380 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline] udffindentry+0x7b6/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:243 udflookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309 lookupopen fs/namei.c:3391 [inline] openlastlookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline] pathopenat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710 dofilpopen+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740 dosysopenat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310 dosysopen fs/open.c:1326 [inline] dosyscreat fs/open.c:1402 [inline] sesyscreat fs/open.c:1396 [inline] x64syscreat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] dosyscall64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880123ff800 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256 The buggy address is located 150 bytes inside of 256-byte region [ffff8880123ff800, ffff8880123ff900)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:ffffea000048ff80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x123fe head:ffffea000048ff80 order:1 compoundmapcount:0 compoundpincount:0 flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff) raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea00004b8500 dead000000000003 ffff888012041b40 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected pageowner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfpmask 0x0(), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 1841222404, freets 0 createdummystack mm/pageowner.c: ---truncated---

Other sources

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

udf: Fix a slab-out-of-bounds write bug in udffindentry()

Syzbot reported a slab-out-of-bounds Write bug:

loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in udffindentry+0x8a5/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:253 Write of size 105 at addr ffff8880123ff896 by task syz-executor323/3610

CPU: 0 PID: 3610 Comm: syz-executor323 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller-00105-gb229b6ca5abb #0 Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/11/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> dumpstack lib/dumpstack.c:88 [inline] dumpstacklvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dumpstack.c:106 printaddressdescription+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:284 printreport+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasanreport+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:495 kasancheckrange+0x2a7/0x2e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 memcpy+0x3c/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:66 udffindentry+0x8a5/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:253 udflookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309 lookupopen fs/namei.c:3391 [inline] openlastlookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline] pathopenat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710 dofilpopen+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740 dosysopenat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310 dosysopen fs/open.c:1326 [inline] dosyscreat fs/open.c:1402 [inline] sesyscreat fs/open.c:1396 [inline] x64syscreat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] dosyscall64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7ffab0d164d9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffe1a7e6bb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIGRAX: 0000000000000055 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007ffab0d164d9 RDX: 00007ffab0d164d9 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000020000180 RBP: 00007ffab0cd5a10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00005555573552c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffab0cd5aa0 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK>

Allocated by task 3610: kasansavestack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline] kasansettrack+0x3d/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:52 kasankmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:371 [inline] kasankmalloc+0x97/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:380 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline] udffindentry+0x7b6/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:243 udflookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309 lookupopen fs/namei.c:3391 [inline] openlastlookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline] pathopenat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710 dofilpopen+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740 dosysopenat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310 dosysopen fs/open.c:1326 [inline] dosyscreat fs/open.c:1402 [inline] sesyscreat fs/open.c:1396 [inline] x64syscreat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] dosyscall64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880123ff800 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256 The buggy address is located 150 bytes inside of 256-byte region [ffff8880123ff800, ffff8880123ff900)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:ffffea000048ff80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x123fe head:ffffea000048ff80 order:1 compoundmapcount:0 compoundpincount:0 flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff) raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea00004b8500 dead000000000003 ffff888012041b40 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected pageowner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfpmask 0x0(), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 1841222404, freets 0 createdummystack mm/pageowner.c: ---truncated---

MITRE

Affected Software

12 affected components
Linux Linux kernel
Linux Linux kernel>=4.6<4.9.334
Linux Linux kernel>=4.10<4.14.300
Linux Linux kernel>=4.15<4.19.267
Linux Linux kernel>=4.20<5.4.225
Linux Linux kernel>=5.5<5.10.155
Linux Linux kernel>=5.11<5.15.79
Linux Linux kernel>=5.16<6.0.9
Linux Linux kernel=6.1-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=6.1-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=6.1-rc3
Linux Linux kernel=6.1-rc4

Event History

May 1, 2025
CVE Published
via MITRE·02:10 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·02:10 PM
DescriptionSeverity
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·03:04 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Data Sourced
via NVD·03:16 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of CVE-2022-49846?

CVE-2022-49846 is classified as a high severity vulnerability due to the potential for remote code execution.

2

How do I fix CVE-2022-49846?

To fix CVE-2022-49846, update to the latest stable version of the Linux kernel that addresses this vulnerability.

3

Which versions of the Linux kernel are affected by CVE-2022-49846?

CVE-2022-49846 affects several versions of the Linux kernel, specifically versions between 4.6 up to 6.1-rc4.

4

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2022-49846?

CVE-2022-49846 is a slab-out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's udf_find_entry function.

5

Can CVE-2022-49846 be exploited remotely?

Yes, CVE-2022-49846 can be exploited remotely, potentially allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.

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