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CVE-2023-52487
published 2024-03-11

CVE-2023-52487: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix peer flow lists handling The cited change refactored…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.27%
19.3th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix peer flow lists handling The cited change refactored mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow() to only clear DUP flag when list of peer flows has become empty. However, if any concurrent user holds a reference to a peer flow (for example, the neighbor update workqueue task is updating peer flow's parent encap entry concurrently), then the flow will not be removed from the peer list and, consecutively, DUP flag will remain set. Since mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow() calls mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow() for every possible peer index the algorithm will try to remove the flow from eswitch instances that it has never peered with causing either NULL pointer dereference when trying to remove the flow peer list head of peer_index that was never initialized or a warning if the list debug config is enabled[0]. Fix the issue by always removing the peer flow from the list even when not releasing the last reference to it. [0]: [ 3102.985806] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 3102.986223] list_del corruption, ffff888139110698->next is NULL [ 3102.986757] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 22109 at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x4f/0xc0 [ 3102.987561] Modules linked in: act_ct nf_flow_table bonding act_tunnel_key act_mirred act_skbedit vxlan cls_matchall nfnetlink_cttimeout act_gact cls_flower sch_ingress mlx5_vdpa vringh vhost_iotlb vdpa openvswitch nsh xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat xt_addrtype xt_conntrack nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcg ss oid_registry overlay rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5_core [last unloaded: bonding] [ 3102.991113] CPU: 2 PID: 22109 Comm: revalidator28 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc6+ #3 [ 3102.991695] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 3102.992605] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.6.15-1 (forky)linux 6.6.15-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 9be6c21fdcf8a7ec48262bb76f78c17ac2761ac6 < 74cec142f89bf85c6c99c5db957da9f663f9f16f74cec142f89bf85c6c99c5db957da9f663f9f16f
linuxlinux>= 9be6c21fdcf8a7ec48262bb76f78c17ac2761ac6 < e24d6f5a7f2d95a98a46257a5a5a5381d572894fe24d6f5a7f2d95a98a46257a5a5a5381d572894f
linuxlinux>= 9be6c21fdcf8a7ec48262bb76f78c17ac2761ac6 < d76fdd31f953ac5046555171620f2562715e9b71d76fdd31f953ac5046555171620f2562715e9b71
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.6.15-16.6.15-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.6.15-16.6.15-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.5 < 6.6.156.6.15
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7 < 6.7.36.7.3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5LOW
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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