[PATCH ntfs3] fs/ntfs3: validate $SDH entry size in ntfs_insert_security

Xiang Mei <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jul 2026 14:54:31 -0700
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ntfs3,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ntfs_insert_security() walks the $Secure::$SDH index and reads
e->sec_hdr.size for every entry returned by indx_find()/indx_find_sort().
Those only guarantee the NTFS_DE envelope (e->size), so a crafted $SDH
entry shorter than a full NTFS_DE_SDH at the tail of an index buffer makes
the read of e->sec_hdr.size run past the allocation. Triggerable by an
unprivileged setxattr(2) on a crafted NTFS image.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_insert_security (fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c:2148)
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800fa1de00 by task exploit/142
   ntfs_insert_security (fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c:2148)
   ntfs_setxattr (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:947)
   __vfs_setxattr (fs/xattr.c:223)
   __vfs_setxattr_noperm (fs/xattr.c:257)
   vfs_setxattr (fs/xattr.c:344)
   filename_setxattr (fs/xattr.c:690)
   path_setxattrat (fs/xattr.c:734)
   __x64_sys_setxattr (fs/xattr.c:764)
   [...]
  The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
   allocated 512-byte region [ffff88800fa1dc00, ffff88800fa1de00)

Stop the scan when an entry is too small to hold a SECURITY_HDR.

Fixes: 82cae269cfa9 ("fs/ntfs3: Add initialization of super block")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <[email protected]>
---
 fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c b/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c
index bc7469d0a34d..6d81ae6c1f11 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c
@@ -2145,6 +2145,9 @@ int ntfs_insert_security(struct ntfs_sb_info *sbi,
 		goto out;
 
 	while (e) {
+		if (le16_to_cpu(e->de.size) < SIZEOF_SDH_DIRENTRY)
+			break;
+
 		if (le32_to_cpu(e->sec_hdr.size) == new_sec_size) {
 			err = ntfs_read_run_nb(sbi, &ni->file.run,
 					       le64_to_cpu(e->sec_hdr.off),
-- 
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