Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49881: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49881: kernel security update

Severity

5

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

10/21/2024

Created

01/16/2025

Added

01/15/2025

Modified

01/30/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: update orig_path in ext4_find_extent() In ext4_find_extent(), if the path is not big enough, we free it and set *orig_path to NULL. But after reallocating and successfully initializing the path, we don't update *orig_path, in which case the caller gets a valid path but a NULL ppath, and this may cause a NULL pointer dereference or a path memory leak. For example: ext4_split_extent path = *ppath = 2000 ext4_find_extent if (depth > path[0].p_maxdepth) kfree(path = 2000); *orig_path = path = NULL; path = kcalloc() = 3000 ext4_split_extent_at(*ppath = NULL) path = *ppath; ex = path[depth].p_ext; // NULL pointer dereference! ================================================================== BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 576 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.11.0-rc2-dirty #847 RIP: 0010:ext4_split_extent_at+0x6d/0x560 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_split_extent.isra.0+0xcb/0x1b0 ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized+0x168/0x6c0 ext4_ext_handle_unwritten_extents+0x325/0x4d0 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x520/0xdb0 ext4_map_blocks+0x2b0/0x690 ext4_iomap_begin+0x20e/0x2c0 [...] ================================================================== Therefore, *orig_path is updated when the extent lookup succeeds, so that the caller can safely use path or *ppath.

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-49881
• CVE - 2024-49881
• EulerOS-SA-2025-1057