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CVE-2023-52497

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CVE-2023-52497

Published: Feb 29, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: fix lz4 inplace decompression Currently EROFS can map another compressed buffer for inplace decompression, that was used to handle the cases that some pages of compressed data are actually not in-place I/O. However, like most simple LZ77 algorithms, LZ4 expects the compressed data is arranged at the end of the decompressed buffer and it explicitly uses memmove() to handle overlapping: __________________________________________________________ |_ direction of decompression --> ____ |_ compressed data _| Although EROFS arranges compressed data like this, it typically maps two individual virtual buffers so the relative order is uncertain. Previously, it was hardly observed since LZ4 only uses memmove() for short overlapped literals and x86/arm64 memmove implementations seem to completely cover it up and they don't have this issue. Juhyung reported that EROFS data corruption can be found on a new Intel x86 processor. After some analysis, it seems that recent x86 processors with the new FSRM feature expose this issue with "rep movsb". Let's strictly use the decompressed buffer for lz4 inplace decompression for now. Later, as an useful improvement, we could try to tie up these two buffers together in the correct order.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
0ffd71bcc3a03ebb3551661a36052488369c4de9 - < 9ff2d260b25df6fe1341a79113d88fecf6bd553e
affected
0ffd71bcc3a03ebb3551661a36052488369c4de9 - < a0180e940cf1aefa7d516e20b259ad34f7a8b379
affected
0ffd71bcc3a03ebb3551661a36052488369c4de9 - < 77cbc04a1a8610e303a0e0d74f2676667876a184
affected
0ffd71bcc3a03ebb3551661a36052488369c4de9 - < 33bf23c9940dbd3a22aad7f0cda4c84ed5701847
affected
0ffd71bcc3a03ebb3551661a36052488369c4de9 - < f36d200a80a3ca025532ed60dd1ac21b620e14ae

+2 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.3
unaffected
0 - < 5.3
unaffected
5.4.285 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.211 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.150 - <= 5.15.*

+4 more versions

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