GHSA-rq43-8p3g-5cc4HighCVSS 7.8
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: validate p_idx bounds...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: validate p_idx bounds in ext4_ext_correct_indexes
ext4_ext_correct_indexes() walks up the extent tree correcting
index entries when the first extent in a leaf is modified. Before
accessing path[k].p_idx->ei_block, there is no validation that
p_idx falls within the valid range of index entries for that
level.
If the on-disk extent header contains a corrupted or crafted
eh_entries value, p_idx can point past the end of the allocated
buffer, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read.
Fix this by validating path[k].p_idx against EXT_LAST_INDEX() at
both access sites: before the while loop and inside it. Return
-EFSCORRUPTED if the index pointer is out of range, consistent
with how other bounds violations are handled in the ext4 extent
tree code.
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31449
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01bf1e0b997d82c0e353b51ed74ef99698043c33
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2acb5c12ebd860f30e4faf67e6cc8c44ddfe5fe8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/407c944f217c17d4343148011acafebc604d55e1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93f2e975ed658ce09db4d4c2877ca2c06540df83
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d08401aa13f1531216f1a7ae281ca4806e90a5c
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rq43-8p3g-5cc4