vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53101): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C) | May 2, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode
If the boot loader inode has never been used before, the
EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT inode will initialize it, including setting the
i_size to 0. However, if the "never before used" boot loader has a
non-zero i_size, then i_disksize will be non-zero, and the
inconsistency between i_size and i_disksize can trigger a kernel
warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2580 at fs/ext4/file.c:319
CPU: 0 PID: 2580 Comm: bb Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00004-g703695902cfa
RIP: 0010:ext4_file_write_iter+0xbc7/0xd10
Call Trace:
vfs_write+0x3b1/0x5c0
ksys_write+0x77/0x160
__x64_sys_write+0x22/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x39/0x80
Reproducer:
1. create corrupted image and mount it:
mke2fs -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 200
debugfs -wR "sif mount -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img /mnt
cd /mnt
echo 123 > file
2. Run the reproducer program:
posix_memalign(&buf, 1024, 1024)
fd = open("file", O_RDWR | O_DIRECT);
ioctl(fd, EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT);
write(fd, buf, 1024);
Fix this by setting i_disksize as well as i_size to zero when
initiaizing the boot loader inode.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2023-53101
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-53101
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/f5361da1e60d54ec81346aee8e3d8baf1be0b762
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01a821aacc64d4b05dafd239dbc9b7856686002f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d8a6c9a6415999fee1259ccf1796480c026b7d6
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f00c476da8fe7c4c34ea16abb55d74127120413
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59eee0cdf8c036f554add97a4da7c06d7a9ff34a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cb27b1e76f0cc886ac09055bc41c0ab3f205167
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e9a4cc5486356158554f6ad73027d8635a48b34
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6c1447e483c05dbcfb3ff77ac04237a82070b8c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5361da1e60d54ec81346aee8e3d8baf1be0b762
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53101

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