From: Your Name <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
To: ntfs3@lists.linux.dev
Cc: almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs/ntfs3: validate that EA entry size covers its name and value
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:10:45 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260723221045.529665-1-you@example.com> (raw)
From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
ntfs_read_ea() walks the on-disk $EA attribute and checks each EA_FULL
entry for consistency. For an entry with a non-zero ef->size (the
offset to the next entry) the loop only verifies that this stride fits
in the remaining buffer, and then continues:
if (ef->size) {
ea_size = le32_to_cpu(ef->size);
if (ea_size > bytes)
goto out1;
continue;
}
It never verifies that the entry's own name (ef->name_len) and value
(ef->elength) actually fit inside ef->size. A later reader trusts
ef->elength unconditionally; ntfs_get_ea() does:
len = le16_to_cpu(ea->elength); /* up to 0xffff */
...
if (len > size) /* size is the user buffer */
return -ERANGE;
memcpy(buffer, ea->name + ea->name_len + 1, len);
A crafted image with a small but valid ef->size (e.g. 24) and
ef->elength == 0xffff therefore passes validation, and a getxattr()
with a large enough user buffer copies up to 64 KiB starting just past
the short entry -- an out-of-bounds read of the ea_all allocation that
leaks adjacent kernel heap memory to userspace.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_get_ea+0x2b8/0x3f0
Read of size 65535 ...
ntfs_get_ea -> ntfs_getxattr -> vfs_getxattr -> do_getxattr
The zero-ef->size branch already computes the same struct_size() to
derive the stride; mirror that in the non-zero branch and reject the
entry when its declared size cannot hold the name and value.
Fixes: 0e8235d28f3a ("fs/ntfs3: Check fields while reading")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@gmail.com>
---
fs/ntfs3/xattr.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c b/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c
index 04814dd29375..57114fb726f7 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c
@@ -155,6 +155,24 @@ static int ntfs_read_ea(struct ntfs_inode *ni, struct EA_FULL **ea,
ea_size = le32_to_cpu(ef->size);
if (ea_size > bytes)
goto out1;
+
+ /* Check if we can use fields ef->name_len and ef->elength. */
+ if (bytes < offsetof(struct EA_FULL, name))
+ goto out1;
+
+ /*
+ * The declared entry size (ef->size) must be large
+ * enough to hold the name and value. Otherwise a later
+ * reader such as ntfs_get_ea() copies ef->elength bytes
+ * starting past the entry, reading out of bounds of the
+ * ea buffer and leaking adjacent heap memory to
+ * userspace via getxattr().
+ */
+ if (struct_size(ef, name,
+ 1 + ef->name_len +
+ le16_to_cpu(ef->elength)) >
+ ea_size)
+ goto out1;
continue;
}
--
2.43.0
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