fkie_cve-2025-40049
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-10-28 12:15
Modified
2025-10-30 15:05
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent Syzkaller reports a "KMSAN: uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent" bug. This is caused by open_by_handle_at() being called with a file handle containing an invalid parent inode number. In particular the inode number is that of a symbolic link, rather than a directory. Squashfs_get_parent() gets called with that symbolic link inode, and accesses the parent member field. unsigned int parent_ino = squashfs_i(inode)->parent; Because non-directory inodes in Squashfs do not have a parent value, this is uninitialised, and this causes an uninitialised value access. The fix is to initialise parent with the invalid inode 0, which will cause an EINVAL error to be returned. Regular inodes used to share the parent field with the block_list_start field. This is removed in this commit to enable the parent field to contain the invalid inode number 0.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b3ccd0019132880c94bb00ca7088c1749308f82
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/382a47fae449e554ef1e8c198667fd2f3270b945
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61d38b5ce2782bff3cacaacbb8164087a73ed1a5
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74058c0a9fc8b2b4d5f4a0ef7ee2cfa66a9e49cf
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81a2bca52d43fc9d9abf07408b91255131c5dc53
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b99db7a92e57ff48a96a1b10fddfd2547e7f53
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c28b0ca029edf5d0558abcd76cb8c732706cd339
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f81a5bc9e924ee1950e0dd82bd10749048390f6e
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{
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSquashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent\n\nSyzkaller reports a \"KMSAN: uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent\" bug.\n\nThis is caused by open_by_handle_at() being called with a file handle\ncontaining an invalid parent inode number.  In particular the inode number\nis that of a symbolic link, rather than a directory.\n\nSquashfs_get_parent() gets called with that symbolic link inode, and\naccesses the parent member field.\n\n\tunsigned int parent_ino = squashfs_i(inode)-\u003eparent;\n\nBecause non-directory inodes in Squashfs do not have a parent value, this\nis uninitialised, and this causes an uninitialised value access.\n\nThe fix is to initialise parent with the invalid inode 0, which will cause\nan EINVAL error to be returned.\n\nRegular inodes used to share the parent field with the block_list_start\nfield.  This is removed in this commit to enable the parent field to\ncontain the invalid inode number 0."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-40049",
  "lastModified": "2025-10-30T15:05:32.197",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-10-28T12:15:39.043",
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    },
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  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}


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