We found an infinite loop bug in the exFAT file system that can lead to a
Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. When a dentry in an exFAT filesystem is
malformed, the following system calls — SYS_openat, SYS_ftruncate, and
SYS_pwrite64 — can cause the kernel to hang.
Root cause analysis shows that the size validation code in exfat_find()
does not check whether dentry.stream.valid_size is negative. As a result,
the system calls mentioned above can succeed and eventually trigger the DoS
issue.
This patch adds a check for negative dentry.stream.valid_size to prevent
this vulnerability.
Co-developed-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Jihoon Kwon <jimmyxyz010315@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jihoon Kwon <jimmyxyz010315@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaehun Gou <p22gone@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
info->type = exfat_get_entry_type(ep);
info->attr = le16_to_cpu(ep->dentry.file.attr);
- info->size = le64_to_cpu(ep2->dentry.stream.valid_size);
info->valid_size = le64_to_cpu(ep2->dentry.stream.valid_size);
info->size = le64_to_cpu(ep2->dentry.stream.size);
+ if (info->valid_size < 0) {
+ exfat_fs_error(sb, "data valid size is invalid(%lld)", info->valid_size);
+ return -EIO;
+ }
+
if (unlikely(EXFAT_B_TO_CLU_ROUND_UP(info->size, sbi) > sbi->used_clusters)) {
exfat_fs_error(sb, "data size is invalid(%lld)", info->size);
return -EIO;