CVE-2025-38691

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When function\next_tree_prepare_commit() reallocates a larger buffer to retry encoding\nextents, the \"layoutupdate_pages\" page array is initialized only after the\nretry loop. But ext_tree_free_commitdata() is called on every iteration\nand tries to put pages in the array, thus dereferencing uninitialized\npointers.\n\nAn additional problem is that there is no limit on the maximum possible\nbuffer_size. When there are too many extents, the client may create a\nlayoutcommit that is larger than the maximum possible RPC size accepted\nby the server.\n\nDuring testing, we observed two typical scenarios. First, one memory page\nfor extents is enough when we work with small files, append data to the\nend of the file, or preallocate extents before writing. But when we fill\na new large file without preallocating, the number of extents can be huge,\nand counting the number of written extents in ext_tree_encode_commit()\ndoes not help much. Since this number increases even more between\nunlocking and locking of ext_tree, the reallocated buffer may not be\nlarge enough again and again."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\npNFS: Correcci\u00f3n de desreferencia de puntero no inicializado en el dise\u00f1o de bloque/scsi\n\nEl error ocurre en el tercer intento de codificar extensiones. Cuando la funci\u00f3n ext_tree_prepare_commit() reasigna un b\u00fafer m\u00e1s grande para reintentar la codificaci\u00f3n de extensiones, el array de p\u00e1ginas 'layoutupdate_pages' se inicializa solo despu\u00e9s del bucle de reintento. Pero ext_tree_free_commitdata() es llamada en cada iteraci\u00f3n e intenta colocar p\u00e1ginas en el array, desreferenciando as\u00ed punteros no inicializados.\n\nUn problema adicional es que no hay l\u00edmite en el tama\u00f1o m\u00e1ximo posible de b\u00fafer. 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