Division by zero in Zephyr ext2 superblock parsing allows DoS via crafted filesystem image
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CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HSeverity
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What this means
Zephyr versions 3.5.0 to 4.3.2 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.2 have a division by zero weakness in ext2 superblock parsing, allowing denial of service via crafted filesystem image. An attacker with access to present a crafted ext2 image can trigger this. The impact is limited to availability.
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3.5.0 → before 4.3.2
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4.4.0 → before 4.4.2
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Other versions: unaffected
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Original source description
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The Zephyr ext2 file system validates the on-disk superblock in ext2_verify_disk_superblock() (subsys/fs/ext2/ext2_impl.c) before completing a mount. The validator checked the magic number, block size, revision and feature flags, but did not verify that the on-disk fields s_blocks_per_group and s_inodes_per_group are non-zero. Both fields are read directly from the image and are later used as divisors during mount-time initialization.
During mount, get_ngroups() divides and modulos s_blocks_count by s_blocks_per_group (reached via ext2_fetch_block_group() from ext2_init_fs()), and get_itable_entry() divides (ino - 1) by s_inodes_per_group when fetching the root inode (both in subsys/fs/ext2/ext2_diskops.c). A superblock with either field set to zero therefore causes an integer division by zero during the mount sequence.
An attacker who can present a crafted ext2 image to a device that mounts ext2 — removable media such as an SD card or a USB mass-storage device — can trigger this. On ARMv7-M / ARMv8-M-mainline Cortex-M targets, divide-by-zero trapping is enabled (SCB_CCR_DIV_0_TRP), so the division raises a UsageFault that Zephyr treats as a fatal error, producing a denial of service. The impact is limited to availability; the malformed value is consumed only as a divisor.
The fix rejects a zero s_blocks_per_group or s_inodes_per_group in the superblock validator, returning -EINVAL so the mount fails before any block-group or inode I/O occurs.
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