CVE-2022-49993 Information

Jun 19, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop

The userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call wherein a configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()’s case on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call loop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info() (see line 1050 of loop.c) passing &config->info which is of type loop_info64. This function then sets the appropriate values like the offset.

loop_device has lo_offset of type loff_t (see line 52 of loop.c) which is typdef-chained to long long whereas loop_info64 has lo_offset of type __u64 (see line 56 of include/uapi/linux/loop.h).

The function directly copies offset from info to the device as follows (See line 980 of loop.c): lo->lo_offset = info->lo_offset;

This results in an overflow which triggers a warning in iomap_iter() due to a call to iomap_iter_done() which has: WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->iomap.offset > iter->pos);

Thus check for negative value during loop_set_status_from_info().

Bug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c620fe14aac810396d3c3edc9ad73848bf69a29e

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0455bef69028c65065f16bb04635591b2374249b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e28817cb516b39de6281f6db9b0618b2cc7b42 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6858933131d0dadac071c4d33335a9ea4b8e76cf https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9be7fa7ead18a48940df7b59d993bbc8b9055c15 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a217715338fd48f72114725aa7a40e484a781ca7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adf0112d9b8acb03485624220b4934f69bf13369 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b40877b8562c5720d0a7fce20729f56b75a3dede https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c490a0b5a4f36da3918181a8acdc6991d967c5f3

CNNVD-202506-2279 (Published: 2025-06-18)

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