CVE-2021-47145

Published Mar 25, 2024

Last updated 2 years ago

CVSS medium 5.5
Ubuntu

Overview

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do not BUG_ON in link_to_fixup_dir While doing error injection testing I got the following panic kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/tree-log.c:1862! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 7836 Comm: mount Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1+ #305 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:link_to_fixup_dir+0xd5/0xe0 RSP: 0018:ffffb5800180fa30 EFLAGS: 00010216 RAX: fffffffffffffffb RBX: 00000000fffffffb RCX: ffff8f595287faf0 RDX: ffffb5800180fa37 RSI: ffff8f5954978800 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff8f5953af9450 R08: 0000000000000019 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 000151f408682970 R11: 0000000120021001 R12: ffff8f5954978800 R13: ffff8f595287faf0 R14: ffff8f5953c77dd0 R15: 0000000000000065 FS: 00007fc5284c8c40(0000) GS:ffff8f59bbd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fc5287f47c0 CR3: 000000011275e002 CR4: 0000000000370ee0 Call Trace: replay_one_buffer+0x409/0x470 ? btree_read_extent_buffer_pages+0xd0/0x110 walk_up_log_tree+0x157/0x1e0 walk_log_tree+0xa6/0x1d0 btrfs_recover_log_trees+0x1da/0x360 ? replay_one_extent+0x7b0/0x7b0 open_ctree+0x1486/0x1720 btrfs_mount_root.cold+0x12/0xea ? __kmalloc_track_caller+0x12f/0x240 legacy_get_tree+0x24/0x40 vfs_get_tree+0x22/0xb0 vfs_kern_mount.part.0+0x71/0xb0 btrfs_mount+0x10d/0x380 ? vfs_parse_fs_string+0x4d/0x90 legacy_get_tree+0x24/0x40 vfs_get_tree+0x22/0xb0 path_mount+0x433/0xa10 __x64_sys_mount+0xe3/0x120 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae We can get -EIO or any number of legitimate errors from btrfs_search_slot(), panicing here is not the appropriate response. The error path for this code handles errors properly, simply return the error.
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.