linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-40044: fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling

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Message-ID: <2025102813-CVE-2025-40044-d9af@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:48:21 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40044: fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling

When parsing Allocation Extent Descriptor, lengthAllocDescs comes from
on-disk data and must be validated against the block size. Crafted or
corrupted images may set lengthAllocDescs so that the total descriptor
length (sizeof(allocExtDesc) + lengthAllocDescs) exceeds the buffer,
leading udf_update_tag() to call crc_itu_t() on out-of-bounds memory and
trigger a KASAN use-after-free read.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in crc_itu_t+0x1d5/0x2b0 lib/crc-itu-t.c:60
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888041e7d000 by task syz-executor317/5309

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5309 Comm: syz-executor317 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc4-syzkaller-00261-g850925a8133c #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
 print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
 crc_itu_t+0x1d5/0x2b0 lib/crc-itu-t.c:60
 udf_update_tag+0x70/0x6a0 fs/udf/misc.c:261
 udf_write_aext+0x4d8/0x7b0 fs/udf/inode.c:2179
 extent_trunc+0x2f7/0x4a0 fs/udf/truncate.c:46
 udf_truncate_tail_extent+0x527/0x7e0 fs/udf/truncate.c:106
 udf_release_file+0xc1/0x120 fs/udf/file.c:185
 __fput+0x23f/0x880 fs/file_table.c:431
 task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:239
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0xa2f/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:939
 do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1097 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1097
 x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 </TASK>

Validate the computed total length against epos->bh->b_size.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40044 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 5.15.195 with commit 1d1847812a1a5375c10a2a779338df643f79c047
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.1.156 with commit 918649364fbca7d5df72522ca795479edcd25f91
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.6.112 with commit a70dcfa8d0a0cc530a6af59483dfca260b652c1b
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.12.53 with commit b57f2d7d3e6bb89ed82330c5fe106cdfa34d3e24
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.17.3 with commit 459404f858213967ccfff336c41747d8dd186d38
	Issue introduced in 2.6.12 with commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 and fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit 3bd5e45c2ce30e239d596becd5db720f7eb83c99

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-40044
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/udf/inode.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d1847812a1a5375c10a2a779338df643f79c047
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/918649364fbca7d5df72522ca795479edcd25f91
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a70dcfa8d0a0cc530a6af59483dfca260b652c1b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b57f2d7d3e6bb89ed82330c5fe106cdfa34d3e24
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/459404f858213967ccfff336c41747d8dd186d38
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bd5e45c2ce30e239d596becd5db720f7eb83c99