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Message-ID: <2025103015-CVE-2025-40088-3491@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:48:15 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40088: hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_strcasecmp()

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

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

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

hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_strcasecmp()

The hfsplus_strcasecmp() logic can trigger the issue:

[  117.317703][ T9855] ==================================================================
[  117.318353][ T9855] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_strcasecmp+0x1bc/0x490
[  117.318991][ T9855] Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802160f40c by task repro/9855
[  117.319577][ T9855]
[  117.319773][ T9855] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9855 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6 #33 PREEMPT(full)
[  117.319780][ T9855] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[  117.319783][ T9855] Call Trace:
[  117.319785][ T9855]  <TASK>
[  117.319788][ T9855]  dump_stack_lvl+0x1c1/0x2a0
[  117.319795][ T9855]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0x1c8/0x5c0
[  117.319803][ T9855]  ? __pfx_dump_stack_lvl+0x10/0x10
[  117.319808][ T9855]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x15/0xb0
[  117.319816][ T9855]  ? lock_release+0x4b/0x3e0
[  117.319821][ T9855]  ? __kasan_check_byte+0x12/0x40
[  117.319828][ T9855]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0x1c8/0x5c0
[  117.319835][ T9855]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0x4a5/0x5c0
[  117.319842][ T9855]  print_report+0x17e/0x7e0
[  117.319848][ T9855]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0x1c8/0x5c0
[  117.319855][ T9855]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0x4a5/0x5c0
[  117.319862][ T9855]  ? __phys_addr+0xd3/0x180
[  117.319869][ T9855]  ? hfsplus_strcasecmp+0x1bc/0x490
[  117.319876][ T9855]  kasan_report+0x147/0x180
[  117.319882][ T9855]  ? hfsplus_strcasecmp+0x1bc/0x490
[  117.319891][ T9855]  hfsplus_strcasecmp+0x1bc/0x490
[  117.319900][ T9855]  ? __pfx_hfsplus_cat_case_cmp_key+0x10/0x10
[  117.319906][ T9855]  hfs_find_rec_by_key+0xa9/0x1e0
[  117.319913][ T9855]  __hfsplus_brec_find+0x18e/0x470
[  117.319920][ T9855]  ? __pfx_hfsplus_bnode_find+0x10/0x10
[  117.319926][ T9855]  ? __pfx_hfs_find_rec_by_key+0x10/0x10
[  117.319933][ T9855]  ? __pfx___hfsplus_brec_find+0x10/0x10
[  117.319942][ T9855]  hfsplus_brec_find+0x28f/0x510
[  117.319949][ T9855]  ? __pfx_hfs_find_rec_by_key+0x10/0x10
[  117.319956][ T9855]  ? __pfx_hfsplus_brec_find+0x10/0x10
[  117.319963][ T9855]  ? __kmalloc_noprof+0x2a9/0x510
[  117.319969][ T9855]  ? hfsplus_find_init+0x8c/0x1d0
[  117.319976][ T9855]  hfsplus_brec_read+0x2b/0x120
[  117.319983][ T9855]  hfsplus_lookup+0x2aa/0x890
[  117.319990][ T9855]  ? __pfx_hfsplus_lookup+0x10/0x10
[  117.320003][ T9855]  ? d_alloc_parallel+0x2f0/0x15e0
[  117.320008][ T9855]  ? __lock_acquire+0xaec/0xd80
[  117.320013][ T9855]  ? __pfx_d_alloc_parallel+0x10/0x10
[  117.320019][ T9855]  ? __raw_spin_lock_init+0x45/0x100
[  117.320026][ T9855]  ? __init_waitqueue_head+0xa9/0x150
[  117.320034][ T9855]  __lookup_slow+0x297/0x3d0
[  117.320039][ T9855]  ? __pfx___lookup_slow+0x10/0x10
[  117.320045][ T9855]  ? down_read+0x1ad/0x2e0
[  117.320055][ T9855]  lookup_slow+0x53/0x70
[  117.320065][ T9855]  walk_component+0x2f0/0x430
[  117.320073][ T9855]  path_lookupat+0x169/0x440
[  117.320081][ T9855]  filename_lookup+0x212/0x590
[  117.320089][ T9855]  ? __pfx_filename_lookup+0x10/0x10
[  117.320098][ T9855]  ? strncpy_from_user+0x150/0x290
[  117.320105][ T9855]  ? getname_flags+0x1e5/0x540
[  117.320112][ T9855]  user_path_at+0x3a/0x60
[  117.320117][ T9855]  __x64_sys_umount+0xee/0x160
[  117.320123][ T9855]  ? __pfx___x64_sys_umount+0x10/0x10
[  117.320129][ T9855]  ? do_syscall_64+0xb7/0x3a0
[  117.320135][ T9855]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[  117.320141][ T9855]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[  117.320145][ T9855]  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3a0
[  117.320150][ T9855]  ? exc_page_fault+0x9f/0xf0
[  117.320154][ T9855]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[  117.320158][ T9855] RIP: 0033:0x7f7dd7908b07
[  117.320163][ T9855] Code: 23 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 f6 e9 09 00 00 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 08
[  117.320167][ T9855] RSP: 002b:00007ffd5ebd9698 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
[  117.320172][ T9855] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f7dd7908b07
[  117.320176][ T9855] RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00007ffd5ebd9740
[  117.320179][ T9855] RBP: 00007ffd5ebda780 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 00007ffd5ebd9530
[  117.320181][ T9855] R10: 00007f7dd799bfc0 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000055e2008b32d0
[  117.320184][ T9855] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[  117.320189][ T9855]  </TASK>
[  117.320190][ T9855]
[  117.351311][ T9855] Allocated by task 9855:
[  117.351683][ T9855]  kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80
[  117.352093][ T9855]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x8d/0xa0
[  117.352490][ T9855]  __kmalloc_noprof+0x288/0x510
[  117.352914][ T9855]  hfsplus_find_init+0x8c/0x1d0
[  117.353342][ T9855]  hfsplus_lookup+0x19c/0x890
[  117.353747][ T9855]  __lookup_slow+0x297/0x3d0
[  117.354148][ T9855]  lookup_slow+0x53/0x70
[  117.354514][ T9855]  walk_component+0x2f0/0x430
[  117.354921][ T9855]  path_lookupat+0x169/0x440
[  117.355325][ T9855]  filename_lookup+0x212/0x590
[  117.355740][ T9855]  user_path_at+0x3a/0x60
[  117.356115][ T9855]  __x64_sys_umount+0xee/0x160
[  117.356529][ T9855]  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3a0
[  117.356920][ T9855]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[  117.357429][ T9855]
[  117.357636][ T9855] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802160f000
[  117.357636][ T9855]  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
[  117.358827][ T9855] The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
[  117.358827][ T9855]  allocated 1036-byte region [ffff88802160f000, ffff88802160f40c)
[  117.360061][ T9855]
[  117.360266][ T9855] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[  117.360813][ T9855] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x21608
[  117.361562][ T9855] head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
[  117.362285][ T9855] flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
[  117.362929][ T9855] page_type: f5(slab)
[  117.363282][ T9855] raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801a842f00 ffffea0000932000 dead000000000002
[  117.364015][ T9855] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
[  117.364750][ T9855] head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801a842f00 ffffea0000932000 dead000000000002
[  117.365491][ T9855] head: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
[  117.366232][ T9855] head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000858201 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
[  117.366968][ T9855] head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
[  117.367711][ T9855] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[  117.368259][ T9855] page_owner tracks the page as allocated
[  117.368745][ T9855] page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN1
[  117.370541][ T9855]  post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0
[  117.370954][ T9855]  get_page_from_freelist+0x2101/0x21e0
[  117.371435][ T9855]  __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x274/0x380
[  117.371935][ T9855]  alloc_pages_mpol+0x241/0x4b0
[  117.372360][ T9855]  allocate_slab+0x8d/0x380
[  117.372752][ T9855]  ___slab_alloc+0xbe3/0x1400
[  117.373159][ T9855]  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x296/0x3d0
[  117.373621][ T9855]  nexthop_net_init+0x75/0x100
[  117.374038][ T9855]  ops_init+0x35c/0x5c0
[  117.374400][ T9855]  setup_net+0x10c/0x320
[  117.374768][ T9855]  copy_net_ns+0x31b/0x4d0
[  117.375156][ T9855]  create_new_namespaces+0x3f3/0x720
[  117.375613][ T9855]  unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x11c/0x170
[  117.376094][ T9855]  ksys_unshare+0x4ca/0x8d0
[  117.376477][ T9855]  __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x50
[  117.376879][ T9855]  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3a0
[  117.377265][ T9855] page last free pid 9110 tgid 9110 stack trace:
[  117.377795][ T9855]  __free_frozen_pages+0xbeb/0xd50
[  117.378229][ T9855]  __put_partials+0x152/0x1a0
[  117.378625][ T9855]  put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250
[  117.379026][ T9855]  __slab_free+0x2d4/0x3c0
[  117.379404][ T9855]  qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140
[  117.379790][ T9855]  kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160
[  117.380250][ T9855]  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80
[  117.380662][ T9855]  __kmalloc_noprof+0x232/0x510
[  117.381074][ T9855]  tomoyo_supervisor+0xc0a/0x1360
[  117.381498][ T9855]  tomoyo_env_perm+0x149/0x1e0
[  117.381903][ T9855]  tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x15ad/0x1b90
[  117.382378][ T9855]  tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x11c/0x180
[  117.382859][ T9855]  security_bprm_check+0x89/0x280
[  117.383289][ T9855]  bprm_execve+0x8f1/0x14a0
[  117.383673][ T9855]  do_execveat_common+0x528/0x6b0
[  117.384103][ T9855]  __x64_sys_execve+0x94/0xb0
[  117.384500][ T9855]
[  117.384706][ T9855] Memory state around the buggy address:
[  117.385179][ T9855]  ffff88802160f300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  117.385854][ T9855]  ffff88802160f380: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  117.386534][ T9855] >ffff88802160f400: 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[  117.387204][ T9855]                       ^
[  117.387566][ T9855]  ffff88802160f480: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[  117.388243][ T9855]  ffff88802160f500: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[  117.388918][ T9855] ==================================================================

The issue takes place if the length field of struct hfsplus_unistr
is bigger than HFSPLUS_MAX_STRLEN. The patch simply checks
the length of comparing strings. And if the strings' length
is bigger than HFSPLUS_MAX_STRLEN, then it is corrected
to this value.

v2
The string length correction has been added for hfsplus_strcmp().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40088 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 5.4.301 with commit 603158d4efa98a13a746bd586c20f194f4a31ec8
	Fixed in 5.10.246 with commit ef250c3edd995d7bb5a5e5122ffad1c28a8686eb
	Fixed in 5.15.196 with commit 7ab44236b32ed41eb0636797e8e8e885a2f3b18a
	Fixed in 6.1.158 with commit b47a75b6f762321f9eb6f31aab7bce47a37063b7
	Fixed in 6.6.114 with commit 4f5ab4a9c6abd8b0d713cc2b7b041bc10d70f241
	Fixed in 6.12.55 with commit 586c75dfd1d265c4150f6529debb85c9d62e101f
	Fixed in 6.17.5 with commit 4bc081ba6c52b0c88c92701e3fbc33c7e2277afb
	Fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit 42520df65bf67189541a425f7d36b0b3e7bd7844

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-2025-40088
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/hfsplus/unicode.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/603158d4efa98a13a746bd586c20f194f4a31ec8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef250c3edd995d7bb5a5e5122ffad1c28a8686eb
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ab44236b32ed41eb0636797e8e8e885a2f3b18a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47a75b6f762321f9eb6f31aab7bce47a37063b7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f5ab4a9c6abd8b0d713cc2b7b041bc10d70f241
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/586c75dfd1d265c4150f6529debb85c9d62e101f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bc081ba6c52b0c88c92701e3fbc33c7e2277afb
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42520df65bf67189541a425f7d36b0b3e7bd7844

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