ext4: add validity checks for bitmap block numbers
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 03:54:10 +0000 (23:54 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:13:03 +0000 (11:13 +0100)
commitf551db601d103371f9ca6caf48c95f1be8a39b01
treedd71484dd008da58c3f10f6679677f2c12e47316
parentba2628ac58376b10e5ee03399089dc28adcb5c5b
ext4: add validity checks for bitmap block numbers

An privileged attacker can cause a crash by mounting a crafted ext4
image which triggers a out-of-bounds read in the function
ext4_valid_block_bitmap() in fs/ext4/balloc.c.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-1093.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199181
BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560782
Reported-by: Wen Xu <wen.xu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name ext4-add-validity-checks-for-bitmap-block-numbers.patch
fs/ext4/balloc.c
fs/ext4/ialloc.c