CVE-2019-11833 (published 2019-05-15T13:29Z)

fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.2 does not zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading uninitialized data in the filesystem.

Severity: LOW
CVSS v2 base score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-908
cwe_name: Use of Uninitialized Resource
description: The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.
extended_description: When a resource has not been properly initialized, the product may behave unexpectedly. This may lead to a crash or invalid memory access, but the consequences vary depending on the type of resource and how it is used within the product.
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Sriram Rajagopalan
author_date: 2019-05-10 19:28:06-04:00
msg: ext4: zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block

This commit zeroes out the unused memory region in the buffer_head
corresponding to the extent metablock after writing the extent header
and the corresponding extent node entries.

This is done to prevent random uninitialized data from getting into
the filesystem when the extent block is synced.

This fixes CVE-2019-11833.

Signed-off-by: Sriram Rajagopalan <sriramr@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: extents.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1035,6 +1035,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	__le32 border;
 	ext4_fsblk_t *ablocks = NULL; /* array of allocated blocks */
 	int err = 0;
+	size_t ext_size = 0;
 
 	/* make decision: where to split? */
 	/* FIXME: now decision is simplest: at current extent */
@@ -1126,6 +1127,10 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		le16_add_cpu(&neh->eh_entries, m);
 	}
 
+	/* zero out unused area in the extent block */
+	ext_size = sizeof(struct ext4_extent_header) +
+		sizeof(struct ext4_extent) * le16_to_cpu(neh->eh_entries);
+	memset(bh->b_data + ext_size, 0, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - ext_size);
 	ext4_extent_block_csum_set(inode, neh);
 	set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 	unlock_buffer(bh);
@@ -1205,6 +1210,11 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 				sizeof(struct ext4_extent_idx) * m);
 			le16_add_cpu(&neh->eh_entries, m);
 		}
+		/* zero out unused area in the extent block */
+		ext_size = sizeof(struct ext4_extent_header) +
+		   (sizeof(struct ext4_extent) * le16_to_cpu(neh->eh_entries));
+		memset(bh->b_data + ext_size, 0,
+			inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - ext_size);
 		ext4_extent_block_csum_set(inode, neh);
 		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 		unlock_buffer(bh);
@@ -1270,6 +1280,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	ext4_fsblk_t newblock, goal = 0;
 	struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es;
 	int err = 0;
+	size_t ext_size = 0;
 
 	/* Try to prepend new index to old one */
 	if (ext_depth(inode))
@@ -1295,9 +1306,11 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	ext_size = sizeof(EXT4_I(inode)->i_data);
 	/* move top-level index/leaf into new block */
-	memmove(bh->b_data, EXT4_I(inode)->i_data,
-		sizeof(EXT4_I(inode)->i_data));
+	memmove(bh->b_data, EXT4_I(inode)->i_data, ext_size);
+	/* zero out unused area in the extent block */
+	memset(bh->b_data + ext_size, 0, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - ext_size);
 
 	/* set size of new block */
 	neh = ext_block_hdr(bh);

programming_language: C