From: David Lee <david.lee@trailofbits.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: David Lee <david.lee@trailofbits.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dominik 'Disconnect3d' Czarnota
<dominik.czarnota@trailofbits.com>
Subject: [PATCH] UDF symlink pathComponent header OOB read
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:47:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260717104722.41446-1-david.lee@trailofbits.com> (raw)
udf_symlink_filler() can enter udf_pc_to_char() with a partial pathComponent header.
Validate that enough input remains for a complete pathComponent header
before accessing it. Reject malformed symlink data that would otherwise
make udf_pc_to_char() perform an out-of-bounds read.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: David Lee <david.lee@trailofbits.com>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5
---
Trail of Bits has a reproducer that triggers a kernel panic demonstrating
this bug and can share it if needed.
fs/udf/symlink.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/udf/symlink.c b/fs/udf/symlink.c
index fe03745..a05d188 100644
--- a/fs/udf/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/udf/symlink.c
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ static int udf_pc_to_char(struct super_block *sb, unsigned char *from,
/* Reserve one byte for terminating \0 */
tolen--;
while (elen < fromlen) {
+ if (fromlen - elen < sizeof(struct pathComponent))
+ return -EIO;
pc = (struct pathComponent *)(from + elen);
elen += sizeof(struct pathComponent);
switch (pc->componentType) {
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