N/A - CVE-2025-22121

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2025-22121	First vendor Publication	2025-04-16
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2025-04-17

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

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

ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()

There's issue as follows: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x6ff/0x790 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88807b003000 by task syz-executor.0/15172

CPU: 3 PID: 15172 Comm: syz-executor.0 Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:82 [inline]
dump_stack+0xbe/0xfd lib/dump_stack.c:123
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1e/0x280 mm/kasan/report.c:400
__kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:560
kasan_report+0x3a/0x50 mm/kasan/report.c:585
ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x6ff/0x790 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1137
ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0x4c7/0xda0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2896
ext4_evict_inode+0xb3b/0x1670 fs/ext4/inode.c:323
evict+0x39f/0x880 fs/inode.c:622
iput_final fs/inode.c:1746 [inline]
iput fs/inode.c:1772 [inline]
iput+0x525/0x6c0 fs/inode.c:1758
ext4_orphan_cleanup fs/ext4/super.c:3298 [inline]
ext4_fill_super+0x8c57/0xba40 fs/ext4/super.c:5300
mount_bdev+0x355/0x410 fs/super.c:1446
legacy_get_tree+0xfe/0x220 fs/fs_context.c:611
vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2f0 fs/super.c:1576
do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2983 [inline]
path_mount+0x119a/0x1ad0 fs/namespace.c:3316
do_mount+0xfc/0x110 fs/namespace.c:3329
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3540 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x219/0x2e0 fs/namespace.c:3514
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88807b002f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff88807b002f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffff88807b003000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
^
ffff88807b003080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff88807b003100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

Above issue happens as ext4_xattr_delete_inode() isn't check xattr is valid if xattr is in inode. To solve above issue call xattr_check_inode() check if xattr if valid in inode. In fact, we can directly verify in ext4_iget_extra_inode(), so that there is no divergent verification.