Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range
Syzkaller reports a “general protection fault in squashfs_copy_data”
This is ultimately caused by a corrupted index look-up table, which produces a negative metadata block offset.
This is subsequently passed to squashfs_copy_data (via squashfs_read_metadata) where the negative offset causes an out of bounds access.
The fix is to check that the offset is within range in squashfs_read_metadata. This will trap this and other cases.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+15 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range
Syzkaller reports a “general protection fault in squashfs_copy_data”
This is ultimately caused by a corrupted index look-up table, which produces a negative metadata block offset.
This is subsequently passed to squashfs_copy_data (via squashfs_read_metadata) where the negative offset causes an out of bounds access.
The fix is to check that the offset is within range in squashfs_read_metadata. This will trap this and other cases.