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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
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Attack Vector
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CVE-2021-47145

Disclosure Date: March 25, 2024 •
CVE-2021-47145 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

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

btrfs: do not BUG_ON in link_to_fixup_dir

While doing error injection testing I got the following panic

kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/tree-log.c:1862!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 PID: 7836 Comm: mount Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1+ #305
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:link_to_fixup_dir+0xd5/0xe0
RSP: 0018:ffffb5800180fa30 EFLAGS: 00010216
RAX: fffffffffffffffb RBX: 00000000fffffffb RCX: ffff8f595287faf0
RDX: ffffb5800180fa37 RSI: ffff8f5954978800 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff8f5953af9450 R08: 0000000000000019 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 000151f408682970 R11: 0000000120021001 R12: ffff8f5954978800
R13: ffff8f595287faf0 R14: ffff8f5953c77dd0 R15: 0000000000000065
FS: 00007fc5284c8c40(0000) GS:ffff8f59bbd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc5287f47c0 CR3: 000000011275e002 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
Call Trace:
replay_one_buffer+0x409/0x470
? btree_read_extent_buffer_pages+0xd0/0x110
walk_up_log_tree+0x157/0x1e0
walk_log_tree+0xa6/0x1d0
btrfs_recover_log_trees+0x1da/0x360
? replay_one_extent+0x7b0/0x7b0
open_ctree+0x1486/0x1720
btrfs_mount_root.cold+0x12/0xea
? __kmalloc_track_caller+0x12f/0x240
legacy_get_tree+0x24/0x40
vfs_get_tree+0x22/0xb0
vfs_kern_mount.part.0+0x71/0xb0
btrfs_mount+0x10d/0x380
? vfs_parse_fs_string+0x4d/0x90
legacy_get_tree+0x24/0x40
vfs_get_tree+0x22/0xb0
path_mount+0x433/0xa10
__x64_sys_mount+0xe3/0x120
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

We can get -EIO or any number of legitimate errors from
btrfs_search_slot(), panicing here is not the appropriate response. The
error path for this code handles errors properly, simply return the
error.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux 76bfd8ac20be
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 5.13
Technical Analysis