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CVE-2022-48733

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free after failure to create a snapshot At ioctl.c:create_snapshot(), we allocate a pending snapshot structure and then attach it to the transaction\'s list of pending snapshots. After that we call btrfs_commit_transaction(), and if that returns an error we jump to \'fail\' label, where we kfree() the pending snapshot structure. This can result in a later use-after-free of the pending snapshot: 1) We allocated the pending snapshot and added it to the transaction\'s list of pending snapshots; 2) We call btrfs_commit_transaction(), and it fails either at the first call to btrfs_run_delayed_refs() or btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups(). In both cases, we don\'t abort the transaction and we release our transaction handle. We jump to the \'fail\' label and free the pending snapshot structure. We return with the pending snapshot still in the transaction\'s list; 3) Another task commits the transaction. This time there\'s no error at all, and then during the transaction commit it accesses a pointer to the pending snapshot structure that the snapshot creation task has already freed, resulting in a user-after-free. This issue could actually be detected by smatch, which produced the following warning: fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:843 create_snapshot() warn: \'&pending_snapshot->list\' not removed from list So fix this by not having the snapshot creation ioctl directly add the pending snapshot to the transaction\'s list. Instead add the pending snapshot to the transaction handle, and then at btrfs_commit_transaction() we add the snapshot to the list only when we can guarantee that any error returned after that point will result in a transaction abort, in which case the ioctl code can safely free the pending snapshot and no one can access it anymore.

Priority: --
CVSS v3: 7.8
Component: linux
Publish Date: Jun 20, 2024
Related ID: --
CVSS v2: HIGH
Modified Date: Jun 20, 2024

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Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads
Linux
Wind River Linux LTS 17 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux 8 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux 9 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux 7 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 21 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 22 Fixed LIN1022-9440
10.22.33.17 --
Wind River Linux LTS 18 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 19 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux CD release N/A -- -- --
Wind River Linux 6 Requires LTSS -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 23 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 24 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks
VxWorks 7 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks 6.9 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition Not Vulnerable -- -- --
eLxr
eLxr 12 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Studio Cloud Platform

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Notes
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