CVE-2023-54125 fs/ntfs3: Return error for inconsistent extended attributes
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: Return error for inconsistent extended attributes

ntfs_read_ea is called when we want to read extended attributes. There
are some sanity checks for the validity of the EAs. However, it fails to
return a proper error code for the inconsistent attributes, which might
lead to unpredicted memory accesses after return.

[  138.916927] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0
[  138.923876] Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800205cfac by task poc/199
[  138.931132]
[  138.933016] CPU: 0 PID: 199 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1+ #4
[  138.938070] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[  138.947327] Call Trace:
[  138.949557]  <TASK>
[  138.951539]  dump_stack_lvl+0x4d/0x67
[  138.956834]  print_report+0x16f/0x4a6
[  138.960798]  ? ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0
[  138.964437]  ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x7d/0x200
[  138.969793]  ? ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0
[  138.973523]  kasan_report+0xb8/0x140
[  138.976740]  ? ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0
[  138.980578]  __asan_store4+0x76/0xa0
[  138.984669]  ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0
[  138.988115]  ? __pfx_ntfs_set_ea+0x10/0x10
[  138.993390]  ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0
[  138.998270]  ? __kernel_text_address+0x16/0x50
[  139.002121]  ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60
[  139.005659]  ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10
[  139.010177]  ? arch_stack_walk+0xa2/0x100
[  139.013657]  ? filter_irq_stacks+0x27/0x80
[  139.017018]  ntfs_setxattr+0x405/0x440
[  139.022151]  ? __pfx_ntfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10
[  139.026569]  ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120
[  139.030329]  ? kasan_save_stack+0x41/0x60
[  139.033883]  ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x60
[  139.037338]  ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40
[  139.040163]  ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30
[  139.043588]  ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0
[  139.047255]  ? __kmalloc_node+0x68/0x150
[  139.051264]  ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120
[  139.055301]  ? vmemdup_user+0x2b/0xa0
[  139.058584]  __vfs_setxattr+0x121/0x170
[  139.062617]  ? __pfx___vfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10
[  139.066282]  __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x97/0x300
[  139.070061]  __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x145/0x170
[  139.073580]  vfs_setxattr+0x137/0x2a0
[  139.076641]  ? __pfx_vfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10
[  139.080223]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20
[  139.084234]  do_setxattr+0xce/0x150
[  139.087768]  setxattr+0x126/0x140
[  139.091250]  ? __pfx_setxattr+0x10/0x10
[  139.094948]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0xcb/0x140
[  139.097838]  ? __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x1c7/0x330
[  139.102688]  ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
[  139.105985]  ? kasan_quarantine_put+0x5b/0x190
[  139.109980]  ? putname+0x84/0xa0
[  139.113886]  ? __kasan_slab_free+0x11e/0x1b0
[  139.117961]  ? putname+0x84/0xa0
[  139.121316]  ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
[  139.124427]  ? __mnt_want_write+0xae/0x100
[  139.127836]  ? mnt_want_write+0x8f/0x150
[  139.130954]  path_setxattr+0x164/0x180
[  139.133998]  ? __pfx_path_setxattr+0x10/0x10
[  139.137853]  ? __pfx_ksys_pwrite64+0x10/0x10
[  139.141299]  ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
[  139.145714]  ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x6b/0x80
[  139.150796]  __x64_sys_setxattr+0x71/0x90
[  139.155407]  do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[  139.159035]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
[  139.163843] RIP: 0033:0x7f108cae4469
[  139.166481] Code: 00 f3 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 088
[  139.183764] RSP: 002b:00007fff87588388 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000bc
[  139.190657] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f108cae4469
[  139.196586] RDX: 00007fff875883b0 RSI: 00007fff875883d1 RDI: 00007fff875883b6
[  139.201716] RBP: 00007fff8758c530 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007fff8758c618
[  139.207940] R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000286 R12: 00000000004004c0
[  139.214007] R13: 00007fff8758c610 R14: 0000000000000000 R15
---truncated---
Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2025-12-24T13:06:43.977Z