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CVE-2023-52676MEDIUM
Linux Linux — bpf: Guard stack limits against 32bit overflow
  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   L   L   L   N  U  N  N  H    5.5   .0024   14.9     —
AFFECTED
  Product  Versions                                    Fixed
  Linux    01f810ace9ed37255f27608a0864abebccf0aab3 –  —
  Linux    5.12 –                                      6.6.14
TIMELINE
  Mar 7   Reserved by Linux
  May 17  Published (CNA: Linux)
  Aug 4   RESCORED — CVE-2023-52676 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
CWE-190 · CNA: Linux · CVSS v3.1 · 3 references · NVD status: Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Guard stack limits against 32bit overflow This patch promotes the arithmetic around checking stack bounds to be done in the 64-bit domain, instead of the current 32bit. The arithmetic implies adding together a 64-bit register with a int offset. The register was checked to be below 1<<29 when it was variable, but not when it was fixed. The offset either comes from an instruction (in which case it is 16 bit), from another register (in which case the caller checked it to be below 1<<29 [1]), or from the size of an argument to a kfunc (in which case it can be a u32 [2]). Between the register being inconsistently checked to be below 1<<29, and the offset being up to an u32, it appears that we were open to overflowing the `int`s which were currently used for arithmetic. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/815fb87b753055df2d9e50f6cd80eb10235fe3e9/kernel/bpf/verifier.c#L7494-L7498 [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/815fb87b753055df2d9e50f6cd80eb10235fe3e9/kernel/bpf/verifier.c#L11904

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
DateEventDetail
March 7, 2024ReservedReserved by Linux
May 17, 2024PublishedPublished (CNA: Linux)
August 4, 2026RESCOREDRESCORED — CVE-2023-52676 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).

Affected

Affected products and packages — 2 rows
VendorProduct / PackageEcosystemVersion introducedFixed
LinuxLinux01f810ace9ed37255f27608a0864abebccf0aab3
LinuxLinux5.126.6.14

Weaknesses

CWE-190

References (3)

Related

Authoritative record: CVE-2023-52676 at cve.org

Vendors: linux

Weaknesses: CWE-190

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