f2fs: Require FMODE_WRITE for atomic write ioctls
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: Require FMODE_WRITE for atomic write ioctls
The F2FS ioctls for starting and committing atomic writes check for inode_owner_or_capable(), but this does not give LSMs like SELinux or Landlock an opportunity to deny the write access - if the caller's FSUID matches the inode's UID, inode_owner_or_capable() immediately returns true.
There are scenarios where LSMs want to deny a process the ability to write particular files, even files that the FSUID of the process owns; but this can currently partially be bypassed using atomic write ioctls in two ways:
- F2FS_IOC_START_ATOMIC_REPLACE + F2FS_IOC_COMMIT_ATOMIC_WRITE can truncate an inode to size 0 - F2FS_IOC_START_ATOMIC_WRITE + F2FS_IOC_ABORT_ATOMIC_WRITE can revert changes another process concurrently made to a file
Fix it by requiring FMODE_WRITE for these operations, just like for F2FS_IOC_MOVE_RANGE. Since any legitimate caller should only be using these ioctls when intending to write into the file, that seems unlikely to break anything.
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Affected products
12- osv-coords10 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/linux@6.11.0-18.18?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-aws@6.11.0-1009.10?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-gcp@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-lowlatency@6.11.0-1010.11?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-oracle@6.11.0-1011.12?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-raspi@6.11.0-1008.8?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-realtime@6.11.0-1005.5?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source-longterm&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 6.11.0-18.18+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-18.18
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.10
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1010.11
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1011.12
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1008.8
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1005.5
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.8-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.11-1.1
Patches
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References
9- git.kernel.org/stable/c/000bab8753ae29a259feb339b99ee759795a48acmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/32f348ecc149e9ca70a1c424ae8fa9b6919d2713mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4583290898c13c2c2e5eb8773886d153c2c5121dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ce87674c3a6b4d3b3d45f85b584ab8618a3cecemitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f5a100f87f32cb65d4bb1ad282a08c92f6f591emitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e0de753bfe87768ebe6744d869caa92f35e5731mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/700f3a7c7fa5764c9f24bbf7c78e0b6e479fa653mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/88ff021e1fea2d9b40b2d5efd9013c89f7be04acmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3bfac2cabf5333506b263bc0c8497c95302f32dmitre
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