[PATCH] ext4: Fix integer overflow in ext4fs_read_symlink()

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Jul 30 02:32:37 PDT 2024


On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 21:44:27 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> While zalloc() takes a size_t type, adding 1 to the le32 variable
> will overflow.
> A carefully crafted ext4 filesystem can exhibit an inode size of 0xffffffff
> and as consequence zalloc() will do a zero allocation.
> 
> Later in the function the inode size is again used for copying data.
> So an attacker can overwrite memory.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: Fix integer overflow in ext4fs_read_symlink()
      https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=a2b76550f7d8 (link may not be stable)

Best regards,
-- 
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>




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