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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-35807): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-35807): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/17/2024
Created
07/02/2024
Added
07/01/2024
Modified
07/17/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix corruption during on-line resize We observed a corruption during on-line resize of a file system that is larger than 16 TiB with 4k block size. With having more then 2^32 blocks resize_inode is turned off by default by mke2fs. The issue can be reproduced on a smaller file system for convenience by explicitly turning off resize_inode. An on-line resize across an 8 GiB boundary (the size of a meta block group in this setup) then leads to a corruption: dev=/dev/<some_dev> # should be >= 16 GiB mkdir -p /corruption /sbin/mke2fs -t ext4 -b 4096 -O ^resize_inode $dev $((2 * 2**21 - 2**15)) mount -t ext4 $dev /corruption dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 of=/corruption/test count=$((2*2**21 - 4*2**15)) sha1sum /corruption/test # 79d2658b39dcfd77274e435b0934028adafaab11 /corruption/test /sbin/resize2fs $dev $((2*2**21)) # drop page cache to force reload the block from disk echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches sha1sum /corruption/test # 3c2abc63cbf1a94c9e6977e0fbd72cd832c4d5c3 /corruption/test 2^21 = 2^15*2^6 equals 8 GiB whereof 2^15 is the number of blocks per block group and 2^6 are the number of block groups that make a meta block group. The last checksum might be different depending on how the file is laid out across the physical blocks. The actual corruption occurs at physical block 63*2^15 = 2064384 which would be the location of the backup of the meta block group's block descriptor. During the on-line resize the file system will be converted to meta_bg starting at s_first_meta_bg which is 2 in the example - meaning all block groups after 16 GiB. However, in ext4_flex_group_add we might add block groups that are not part of the first meta block group yet. In the reproducer we achieved this by substracting the size of a whole block group from the point where the meta block group would start. This must be considered when updating the backup block group descriptors to follow the non-meta_bg layout. The fix is to add a test whether the group to add is already part of the meta block group or not.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1048-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1058-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1060-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1060-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1060-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1063-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1064-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1068-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-116-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-116-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-116-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1075-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1088-bluefield
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1095-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1116-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1127-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1132-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1133-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-189-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-189-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-189-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1004-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1005-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1009-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-cvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-bluefield
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop-5-4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-classic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-osp1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

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