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      <title>CVE-2021-47656 — jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2021-47656</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of
the image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode,
but the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned
in jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then
called in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in
jffs2_do_fill_super().&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally we can observe the following report:
 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x115/0x16b
  jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
  jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30
  jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
  mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400
  mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0
  get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840
  jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30
  vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
  path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50
  do_mount+0x107/0x130
  __se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0
  __x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160
  do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allocated by task 719:
  kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60
  __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120
  kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
  kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870
  jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0
  jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794
  jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253
  jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
  jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
 [.…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of
the image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode,
but the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned
in jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then
called in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in
jffs2_do_fill_super().&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally we can observe the following report:
 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x115/0x16b
  jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
  jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30
  jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
  mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400
  mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0
  get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840
  jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30
  vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
  path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50
  do_mount+0x107/0x130
  __se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0
  __x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160
  do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allocated by task 719:
  kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60
  __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120
  kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
  kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870
  jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0
  jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794
  jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253
  jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
  jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
 [.…&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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