CVE-2023-52852

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_inodes cache, dic may be released, it needs break the loop rather than continuing it, in order to avoid accessing invalid dic pointer.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c4504cc0c64862740a6acb301e0cfa59580dbc5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/932ddb5c29e884cc6fac20417ece72ba4a35c401
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9375ea7f269093d7c884857ae1f47633a91f429c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d065aa52b6ee1b06f9c4eca881c9b4425a12ba2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0327c84e91a0f4f0abced8cb83ec86a7083f086
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c4504cc0c64862740a6acb301e0cfa59580dbc5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/932ddb5c29e884cc6fac20417ece72ba4a35c401
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9375ea7f269093d7c884857ae1f47633a91f429c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d065aa52b6ee1b06f9c4eca881c9b4425a12ba2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0327c84e91a0f4f0abced8cb83ec86a7083f086