ACK: [PATCH 0/2] [SRU] [X,B:linux] CVE-2018-13095

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Thu Mar 11 16:29:56 UTC 2021


On 10.03.21 22:18, Tim Gardner wrote:
> [Impact]
> An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c in the Linux kernel
> through 4.17.3. A denial of service (memory corruption and BUG) can occur
> for a corrupted xfs image upon encountering an inode that is in extent
> format, but has more extents than fit in the inode fork.
> 
> [Test Case]
> iozone -a, misc rsync's
> 
> [Potential regression]
> There appears to be little chance of data corruption. The bigger chance is that
> some file reads/writes may be refused.
> 
> 

The changes necessary for the backports look trivial.

Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>



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