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High severity Unreviewed Published Mar 18, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 18, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ubifs: Fix read out-of-bounds in ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock()

Function ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock() may access buf out of bounds in
following process:

ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock():
aligned_len = ALIGN(len, 8); // Assume len = 4089, aligned_len = 4096
if (aligned_len <= wbuf->avail) ... // Not satisfy
if (wbuf->used) {
ubifs_leb_write() // Fill some data in avail wbuf
len -= wbuf->avail; // len is still not 8-bytes aligned
aligned_len -= wbuf->avail;
}
n = aligned_len >> c->max_write_shift;
if (n) {
n <<= c->max_write_shift;
err = ubifs_leb_write(c, wbuf->lnum, buf + written,
wbuf->offs, n);
// n > len, read out of bounds less than 8(n-len) bytes
}

, which can be catched by KASAN:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ecc_sw_hamming_calculate+0x1dc/0x7d0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888105594ff8 by task kworker/u8:4/128
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-ubifs_0_0)
Call Trace:
kasan_report.cold+0x81/0x165
nand_write_page_swecc+0xa9/0x160
ubifs_leb_write+0xf2/0x1b0 [ubifs]
ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock+0x421/0x12c0 [ubifs]
write_head+0xdc/0x1c0 [ubifs]
ubifs_jnl_write_inode+0x627/0x960 [ubifs]
wb_workfn+0x8af/0xb80

Function ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock() accepts that parameter 'len' is not 8
bytes aligned, the 'len' represents the true length of buf (which is
allocated in 'ubifs_jnl_xxx', eg. ubifs_jnl_write_inode), so
ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock() must handle the length read from 'buf' carefully
to write leb safely.

Fetch a reproducer in [Link].

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 26, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 18, 2025
Last updated Mar 18, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(13th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47636

GHSA ID

GHSA-v3v7-3vrh-65v3

Source code

No known source code

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