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Unscored CVE-2023-52705 EUVD-2023-57329GHSA-rwq9-67rv-755x

nilfs2: fix underflow in second superblock position calculations

Published May 21, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lts-xenial Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

nilfs2: fix underflow in second superblock position calculations

Macro NILFS_SB2_OFFSET_BYTES, which computes the position of the second
superblock, underflows when the argument device size is less than 4096
bytes. Therefore, when using this macro, it is necessary to check in
advance that the device size is not less than a lower limit, or at least
that underflow does not occur.

The current nilfs2 implementation lacks this check, causing out-of-bound
block access when mounting devices smaller than 4096 bytes:

I/O error, dev loop0, sector 36028797018963960 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0
phys_seg 1 prio class 2
NILFS (loop0): unable to read secondary superblock (blocksize = 1024)

In addition, when trying to resize the filesystem to a size below 4096
bytes, this underflow occurs in nilfs_resize_fs(), passing a huge number
of segments to nilfs_sufile_resize(), corrupting parameters such as the
number of segments in superblocks. This causes excessive loop iterations
in nilfs_sufile_resize() during a subsequent resize ioctl, causing
semaphore ns_segctor_sem to block for a long time and hang the writer
thread:

INFO: task segctord:5067 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted 6.2.0-rc8-syzkaller-00015-gf6feea56f66d #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:segctord state:D stack:23456 pid:5067 ppid:2
flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5293 [inline]
__schedule+0x1409/0x43f0 kernel/sched/core.c:6606
schedule+0xc3/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6682
rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0xfcf/0x14a0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1190
nilfs_transaction_lock+0x25c/0x4f0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:357
nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2486 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_thread+0x52f/0x1140 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2570
kthread+0x270/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:308
</TASK>
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
folio_mark_accessed+0x51c/0xf00 mm/swap.c:515
__nilfs_get_page_block fs/nilfs2/page.c:42 [inline]
nilfs_grab_buffer+0x3d3/0x540 fs/nilfs2/page.c:61
nilfs_mdt_submit_block+0xd7/0x8f0 fs/nilfs2/mdt.c:121
nilfs_mdt_read_block+0xeb/0x430 fs/nilfs2/mdt.c:176
nilfs_mdt_get_block+0x12d/0xbb0 fs/nilfs2/mdt.c:251
nilfs_sufile_get_segment_usage_block fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:92 [inline]
nilfs_sufile_truncate_range fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:679 [inline]
nilfs_sufile_resize+0x7a3/0x12b0 fs/nilfs2/sufile.c:777
nilfs_resize_fs+0x20c/0xed0 fs/nilfs2/super.c:422
nilfs_ioctl_resize fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1033 [inline]
nilfs_ioctl+0x137c/0x2440 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1301
...

This fixes these issues by inserting appropriate minimum device size
checks or anti-underflow checks, depending on where the macro is used.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 2.6.30 4.14.306

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.1.15-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.1.15-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.15-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1017.19 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-72.79 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1036.40 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1038.45 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1038.45.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1034.42 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1033.38 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1020.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1030.33 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1030.35 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1025.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1035.41 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1029.31 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +21 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-149.166 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1102.110 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1036.40~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1108.114 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1038.45~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1064.70 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1105.114 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1034.42~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.4.0-1069.73 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop-5.15 5.15.0-1020.25~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-72.79~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1049.54 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1030.35~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1017.18 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1091.97 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1014.14~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1101.110 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1035.41~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1085.96 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1033.37~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1024.28 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux 4.15.0-211.222 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws 4.15.0-1156.169 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1103.111~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1165.180 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1108.114~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1150.166 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1105.114~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-149.166~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1049.54~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.15.0-1140.145 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1119.130 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1101.110~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1085.96~18.04.1 —
Show 10 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1028.33 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1038.41 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1102.110+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1108.114+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1077.86 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1105.114+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 4.15.0-2095.101 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 4.15.0-2074.80 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips 4.15.0-1111.122 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 4.15.0-2058.63 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1156.169~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1165.180~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp 4.15.0-1150.166~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-hwe 4.15.0-211.222~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1119.130~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1165.180~14.04.1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.57.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_15 +1 1-150500.11.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1, SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.5 dtb-aarch64 +10 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.57.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.309-231.529 1.0-0.amzn2 ALAS2-2023-1987
Amazon Linux 2 perf +8 4.14.309-231.529.amzn2 ALAS2-2023-1987

Advisories 5

References