[PATCH] fs/ntfs3: validate that EA entry size covers its name and value
Your Name <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:10:45 -0300
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.ntfs3,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable |
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From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <[email protected]> ntfs_read_ea() walks the on-disk $EA attribute and checks each EA_FULL entry for consistency. For an entry with a non-zero ef->size (the offset to the next entry) the loop only verifies that this stride fits in the remaining buffer, and then continues: if (ef->size) { ea_size = le32_to_cpu(ef->size); if (ea_size > bytes) goto out1; continue; } It never verifies that the entry's own name (ef->name_len) and value (ef->elength) actually fit inside ef->size. A later reader trusts ef->elength unconditionally; ntfs_get_ea() does: len = le16_to_cpu(ea->elength); /* up to 0xffff */ ... if (len > size) /* size is the user buffer */ return -ERANGE; memcpy(buffer, ea->name + ea->name_len + 1, len); A crafted image with a small but valid ef->size (e.g. 24) and ef->elength == 0xffff therefore passes validation, and a getxattr() with a large enough user buffer copies up to 64 KiB starting just past the short entry -- an out-of-bounds read of the ea_all allocation that leaks adjacent kernel heap memory to userspace. BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_get_ea+0x2b8/0x3f0 Read of size 65535 ... ntfs_get_ea -> ntfs_getxattr -> vfs_getxattr -> do_getxattr The zero-ef->size branch already computes the same struct_size() to derive the stride; mirror that in the non-zero branch and reject the entry when its declared size cannot hold the name and value. Fixes: 0e8235d28f3a ("fs/ntfs3: Check fields while reading") Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <[email protected]> --- fs/ntfs3/xattr.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c b/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c index 04814dd29375..57114fb726f7 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c @@ -155,6 +155,24 @@ static int ntfs_read_ea(struct ntfs_inode *ni, struct EA_FULL **ea, ea_size = le32_to_cpu(ef->size); if (ea_size > bytes) goto out1; + + /* Check if we can use fields ef->name_len and ef->elength. */ + if (bytes < offsetof(struct EA_FULL, name)) + goto out1; + + /* + * The declared entry size (ef->size) must be large + * enough to hold the name and value. Otherwise a later + * reader such as ntfs_get_ea() copies ef->elength bytes + * starting past the entry, reading out of bounds of the + * ea buffer and leaking adjacent heap memory to + * userspace via getxattr(). + */ + if (struct_size(ef, name, + 1 + ef->name_len + + le16_to_cpu(ef->elength)) > + ea_size) + goto out1; continue; } -- 2.43.0