Vulnerability CVE-2023-52852

Vulnerability CVE-2023-52852

Published: 2024-05-21

Description:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: compress: fix to avoid use-after-free on dic

Call trace:
__memcpy+0x128/0x250
f2fs_read_multi_pages+0x940/0xf7c
f2fs_mpage_readpages+0x5a8/0x624
f2fs_readahead+0x5c/0x110
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1b8/0x590
do_sync_mmap_readahead+0x1dc/0x2e4
filemap_fault+0x254/0xa8c
f2fs_filemap_fault+0x2c/0x104
__do_fault+0x7c/0x238
do_handle_mm_fault+0x11bc/0x2d14
do_mem_abort+0x3a8/0x1004
el0_da+0x3c/0xa0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0xec
el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8

In f2fs_read_multi_pages(), once f2fs_decompress_cluster() was called if
we hit cached page in compress_inode's cache, dic may be released, it needs
break the loop rather than continuing it, in order to avoid accessing
invalid dic pointer.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c4504cc0c64862740a6acb301e0cfa59580dbc5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9375ea7f269093d7c884857ae1f47633a91f429c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/932ddb5c29e884cc6fac20417ece72ba4a35c401

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d065aa52b6ee1b06f9c4eca881c9b4425a12ba2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0327c84e91a0f4f0abced8cb83ec86a7083f086

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