CVE-2022-49171

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More discussion and background can be found in the\nthread starting at [2].\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz\n[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yg0m6IjcNmfaSokM@google.com"}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: ext4: no generar ERRORES si alguien ensucia p\u00e1ginas sin preguntar primero a ext4 [un]pin_user_pages_remote est\u00e1 ensuciando p\u00e1ginas sin advertir adecuadamente al sistema de archivos con anticipaci\u00f3n. Jan Kara not\u00f3 una ejecuci\u00f3n relacionada en 2018[1]; sin embargo, m\u00e1s recientemente, en lugar de ser una ejecuci\u00f3n muy dif\u00edcil de alcanzar, podr\u00eda ser activada de manera confiable por process_vm_writev(2) que fue descubierto por Syzbot[2]. T\u00e9cnicamente, esto es un error en mm/gup.c, pero podr\u00eda decirse que ext4 es fr\u00e1gil en el sentido de que si alg\u00fan otro subsistema del kernel ensucia p\u00e1ginas sin notificar adecuadamente al sistema de archivos usando page_mkwrite(), ext4 generar\u00e1 ERRORES, mientras que otros sistemas de archivos no generar\u00e1n ERRORES (aunque a\u00fan se perder\u00e1n datos). Entonces, en lugar de bloquearse con un ERROR, emita una advertencia (ya que puede haber una posible p\u00e9rdida de datos) y simplemente marque la p\u00e1gina como limpia para evitar ataques de denegaci\u00f3n de servicio sin privilegios hasta que el problema pueda solucionarse correctamente. Se puede encontrar m\u00e1s discusi\u00f3n y antecedentes en el hilo que comienza en [2]. 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