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GHSA-3W4P-CP93-7566

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-17 12:32 – Updated: 2024-06-26 00:31
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: Fix endless loop in directory parsing

If a directory has a block with only ".__afsXXXX" files in it (from uncompleted silly-rename), these .__afsXXXX files are skipped but without advancing the file position in the dir_context. This leads to afs_dir_iterate() repeating the block again and again.

Fix this by making the code that skips the .__afsXXXX file also manually advance the file position.

The symptoms are a soft lookup:

    watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 52s! [check:5737]
    ...
    RIP: 0010:afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd
    ...
     ? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1a6/0x213
    ...
     ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
     ? afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd
     afs_dir_iterate+0x10a/0x148
     afs_readdir+0x30/0x4a
     iterate_dir+0x93/0xd3
     __do_sys_getdents64+0x6b/0xd4

This is almost certainly the actual fix for:

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218496
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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-26848"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-04-17T11:15:08Z",
    "severity": null
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Fix endless loop in directory parsing\n\nIf a directory has a block with only \".__afsXXXX\" files in it (from\nuncompleted silly-rename), these .__afsXXXX files are skipped but without\nadvancing the file position in the dir_context.  This leads to\nafs_dir_iterate() repeating the block again and again.\n\nFix this by making the code that skips the .__afsXXXX file also manually\nadvance the file position.\n\nThe symptoms are a soft lookup:\n\n        watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 52s! [check:5737]\n        ...\n        RIP: 0010:afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd\n        ...\n         ? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1a6/0x213\n        ...\n         ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20\n         ? afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd\n         afs_dir_iterate+0x10a/0x148\n         afs_readdir+0x30/0x4a\n         iterate_dir+0x93/0xd3\n         __do_sys_getdents64+0x6b/0xd4\n\nThis is almost certainly the actual fix for:\n\n        https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218496",
  "id": "GHSA-3w4p-cp93-7566",
  "modified": "2024-06-26T00:31:37Z",
  "published": "2024-04-17T12:32:04Z",
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}



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