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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of nilfs_root in nilfs_evict_inode()\n\nDuring unmount process of nilfs2, nothing holds nilfs_root structure after\nnilfs2 detaches its writer in nilfs_detach_log_writer(). However, since\nnilfs_evict_inode() uses nilfs_root for some cleanup operations, it may\ncause use-after-free read if inodes are left in \"garbage_list\" and\nreleased by nilfs_dispose_list() at the end of nilfs_detach_log_writer().\n\nFix this issue by modifying nilfs_evict_inode() to only clear inode\nwithout additional metadata changes that use nilfs_root if the file system\nis degraded to read-only or the writer is detached."
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"value": "AV:L - The flaw is reached only through a locally mounted nilfs2 volume — attacker-supplied on-disk metadata plus ordinary local file syscalls and the unmount path; nothing in fs/nilfs2 parses data from a remote peer.\nAC:L - The attacker fully authors the on-disk image, so the `__nilfs_error()`→`SB_RDONLY` degeneration and the resulting `-EROFS` bail in `nilfs_segctor_do_construct()` are deterministic, and the free-then-use ordering inside `nilfs_detach_log_writer()` is a fixed code sequence rather than a race; syzbot reproduced it reliably.\nPR:L - An unprivileged local desktop/kiosk user is enough: udisks2/polkit lets an active local session mount and eject removable media without a password, and the writes that strand inodes on `ns_dirty_files` are ordinary unprivileged VFS operations — matching the PR:L assigned to the same-family nilfs2 crafted-image CVEs.\nUI:N - On an auto-mounting host the attacker performs every step themselves — supply the image, dirty the inodes, trigger the eject/unmount — so no action by a separate victim is required.\nS:U - The freed `nilfs_root` and `ifile` objects and any resulting corruption stay entirely within the kernel's own security authority; no hypervisor, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - After `kfree(root)`, `nilfs_evict_inode()` reads `ii->i_root->ifile` from a reclaimable general-purpose slab object and passes it to `nilfs_ifile_get_inode_block()`/`nilfs_palloc_*`, so a groomed replacement object yields an attacker-chosen inode pointer and arbitrary kernel memory read; `root->ifile` itself is also already freed and its address_space is read out of freed memory.\nI:H - `atomic64_dec(&ii->i_root->inodes_count)` writes directly into the freed slab object at a fixed offset, and `nilfs_ifile_delete_inode()` performs `raw_inode->i_flags = 0` plus `mark_buffer_dirty()` through the attacker-reclaimable `->ifile` pointer, giving write primitives suitable for control-flow hijacking as well as corrupting ifile/allocator metadata written back to disk.\nA:H - This is a use-after-free that syzbot detected via KASAN; dereferencing the freed `nilfs_root` and the already-`iput()`ed ifile inode during unmount readily oopses or panics the kernel, and the corruption drives further filesystem failure."
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