CVE-2025-37782 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hfs/hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read_key

Syzbot reported an issue in hfs subsystem:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcpy_from_page include/linux/highmem.h:423 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read fs/hfs/bnode.c:35 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read_key+0x314/0x450 fs/hfs/bnode.c:70 Write of size 94 at addr ffff8880123cd100 by task syz-executor237/5102

Call Trace: __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 kasan_check_range+0x282/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 __asan_memcpy+0x40/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:106 memcpy_from_page include/linux/highmem.h:423 [inline] hfs_bnode_read fs/hfs/bnode.c:35 [inline] hfs_bnode_read_key+0x314/0x450 fs/hfs/bnode.c:70 hfs_brec_insert+0x7f3/0xbd0 fs/hfs/brec.c:159 hfs_cat_create+0x41d/0xa50 fs/hfs/catalog.c:118 hfs_mkdir+0x6c/0xe0 fs/hfs/dir.c:232 vfs_mkdir+0x2f9/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4257 do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4280 __do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4300 [inline] __se_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4298 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x6c/0x80 fs/namei.c:4298 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 RIP: 0033:0x7fbdd6057a99

Add a check for key length in hfs_bnode_read_key to prevent out-of-bounds memory access. If the key length is invalid the key buffer is cleared improving stability and reliability.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0296f9733543c7c8e666e69da743cfffd32dd805 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84e8719c087e68c967975b78e67be54f697c957f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c93fb4ad8d3b730afe1a09949ebbea64d4f60eb https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f77aa584a659b21211a794e53522e6fb16d4a16 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb5e07cb927724e0b47be371fa081141cfb14414