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CVE-2023-52750
published 2024-05-21

CVE-2023-52750: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer Prior to LLVM 15.0.0…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.24%
15.2th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer Prior to LLVM 15.0.0, LLVM's integrated assembler would incorrectly byte-swap NOP when compiling for big-endian, and the resulting series of bytes happened to match the encoding of FNMADD S21, S30, S0, S0. This went unnoticed until commit: 34f66c4c4d5518c1 ("arm64: Use a positive cpucap for FP/SIMD") Prior to that commit, the kernel would always enable the use of FPSIMD early in boot when __cpu_setup() initialized CPACR_EL1, and so usage of FNMADD within the kernel was not detected, but could result in the corruption of user or kernel FPSIMD state. After that commit, the instructions happen to trap during boot prior to FPSIMD being detected and enabled, e.g. | Unhandled 64-bit el1h sync exception on CPU0, ESR 0x000000001fe00000 -- ASIMD | CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.6.0-rc3-00013-g34f66c4c4d55 #1 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | pstate: 400000c9 (nZcv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) | pc : __pi_strcmp+0x1c/0x150 | lr : populate_properties+0xe4/0x254 | sp : ffffd014173d3ad0 | x29: ffffd014173d3af0 x28: fffffbfffddffcb8 x27: 0000000000000000 | x26: 0000000000000058 x25: fffffbfffddfe054 x24: 0000000000000008 | x23: fffffbfffddfe000 x22: fffffbfffddfe000 x21: fffffbfffddfe044 | x20: ffffd014173d3b70 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: 0000000000000005 | x17: 0000000000000010 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 00000000413e7000 | x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000001bcc x12: 0000000000000000 | x11: 00000000d00dfeed x10: ffffd414193f2cd0 x9 : 0000000000000000 | x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : ffffffffffffffc0 x6 : 0000000000000000 | x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0101010101010101 x3 : 000000000000002a | x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffffd014171f2988 x0 : fffffbfffddffcb8 | Kernel panic - not syncing: Unhandled exception | CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.6.0-rc3-00013-g34f66c4c4d55 #1 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt

Affected

17 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.1.64-1 (bookworm)linux 6.1.64-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 0be7320a635c2e434e8b67e0e9474a85ceb421c4 < d08a1e75253b4e19ae290b1c35349f12cfcebc0ad08a1e75253b4e19ae290b1c35349f12cfcebc0a
linuxlinux>= 0be7320a635c2e434e8b67e0e9474a85ceb421c4 < 936c9c10efaefaf1ab3ef020e1f8aaaaff1ad2f9936c9c10efaefaf1ab3ef020e1f8aaaaff1ad2f9
linuxlinux>= 0be7320a635c2e434e8b67e0e9474a85ceb421c4 < ef0224ee5399ea8a46bc07dc6c6494961ed5fdd2ef0224ee5399ea8a46bc07dc6c6494961ed5fdd2
linuxlinux>= 0be7320a635c2e434e8b67e0e9474a85ceb421c4 < bd31e534721ab95ef237020fe6995c899ffdf21abd31e534721ab95ef237020fe6995c899ffdf21a
linuxlinux>= 0be7320a635c2e434e8b67e0e9474a85ceb421c4 < 69e619d2fd056fe1f5d0adf01584f2da669e0d2869e619d2fd056fe1f5d0adf01584f2da669e0d28
linuxlinux>= 0be7320a635c2e434e8b67e0e9474a85ceb421c4 < 146a15b873353f8ac28dc281c139ff611a3c4848146a15b873353f8ac28dc281c139ff611a3c4848
linuxlinux_kernel< 5.10.2025.10.202
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.10.205-15.10.205-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.1.64-16.1.64-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.6.8-16.6.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.6.8-16.6.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.11 < 5.15.1405.15.140
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.16 < 6.1.646.1.64
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.2 < 6.5.136.5.13
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.6 < 6.6.36.6.3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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