CVE-2024-47740
Published: Oct 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: Require FMODE_WRITE for atomic write ioctls The F2FS ioctls for starting and committing atomic writes check for inode_owner_or_capable(), but this does not give LSMs like SELinux or Landlock an opportunity to deny the write access - if the caller's FSUID matches the inode's UID, inode_owner_or_capable() immediately returns true. There are scenarios where LSMs want to deny a process the ability to write particular files, even files that the FSUID of the process owns; but this can currently partially be bypassed using atomic write ioctls in two ways: - F2FS_IOC_START_ATOMIC_REPLACE + F2FS_IOC_COMMIT_ATOMIC_WRITE can truncate an inode to size 0 - F2FS_IOC_START_ATOMIC_WRITE + F2FS_IOC_ABORT_ATOMIC_WRITE can revert changes another process concurrently made to a file Fix it by requiring FMODE_WRITE for these operations, just like for F2FS_IOC_MOVE_RANGE. Since any legitimate caller should only be using these ioctls when intending to write into the file, that seems unlikely to break anything.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 88b88a66797159949cec32eaab12b4968f6fae2d - < 700f3a7c7fa5764c9f24bbf7c78e0b6e479fa653affected 88b88a66797159949cec32eaab12b4968f6fae2d - < 4ce87674c3a6b4d3b3d45f85b584ab8618a3ceceaffected 88b88a66797159949cec32eaab12b4968f6fae2d - < 000bab8753ae29a259feb339b99ee759795a48acaffected 88b88a66797159949cec32eaab12b4968f6fae2d - < 88ff021e1fea2d9b40b2d5efd9013c89f7be04acaffected 88b88a66797159949cec32eaab12b4968f6fae2d - < 32f348ecc149e9ca70a1c424ae8fa9b6919d2713+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.18unaffected 0 - < 3.18unaffected 4.19.323 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.285 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.227 - <= 5.10.*+6 more versions |
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