CVE-2023-52701
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
21/05/2024
Last modified:
25/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
net: use a bounce buffer for copying skb->mark<br />
<br />
syzbot found arm64 builds would crash in sock_recv_mark()<br />
when CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y<br />
<br />
x86 and powerpc are not detecting the issue because<br />
they define user_access_begin.<br />
This will be handled in a different patch,<br />
because a check_object_size() is missing.<br />
<br />
Only data from skb->cb[] can be copied directly to/from user space,<br />
as explained in commit 79a8a642bf05 ("net: Whitelist<br />
the skbuff_head_cache "cb" field")<br />
<br />
syzbot report was:<br />
usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object &#39;skbuff_head_cache&#39; (offset 168, size 4)!<br />
------------[ cut here ]------------<br />
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102 !<br />
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP<br />
Modules linked in:<br />
CPU: 0 PID: 4410 Comm: syz-executor533 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7-syzkaller-17907-g2d3827b3f393 #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/21/2023<br />
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)<br />
pc : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:90<br />
lr : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:90<br />
sp : ffff80000fb9b9a0<br />
x29: ffff80000fb9b9b0 x28: ffff0000c6073400 x27: 0000000020001a00<br />
x26: 0000000000000014 x25: ffff80000cf52000 x24: fffffc0000000000<br />
x23: 05ffc00000000200 x22: fffffc000324bf80 x21: ffff0000c92fe1a8<br />
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 0000000000000004 x18: 0000000000000000<br />
x17: 656a626f2042554c x16: ffff0000c6073dd0 x15: ffff80000dbd2118<br />
x14: ffff0000c6073400 x13: 00000000ffffffff x12: ffff0000c6073400<br />
x11: ff808000081bbb4c x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 7b0572d7cc0ccf00<br />
x8 : 7b0572d7cc0ccf00 x7 : ffff80000bf650d4 x6 : 0000000000000000<br />
x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000<br />
x2 : ffff0001fefbff08 x1 : 0000000100000000 x0 : 000000000000006c<br />
Call trace:<br />
usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:90<br />
__check_heap_object+0xa8/0x100 mm/slub.c:4761<br />
check_heap_object mm/usercopy.c:196 [inline]<br />
__check_object_size+0x208/0x6b8 mm/usercopy.c:251<br />
check_object_size include/linux/thread_info.h:199 [inline]<br />
__copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:115 [inline]<br />
put_cmsg+0x408/0x464 net/core/scm.c:238<br />
sock_recv_mark net/socket.c:975 [inline]<br />
__sock_recv_cmsgs+0x1fc/0x248 net/socket.c:984<br />
sock_recv_cmsgs include/net/sock.h:2728 [inline]<br />
packet_recvmsg+0x2d8/0x678 net/packet/af_packet.c:3482<br />
____sys_recvmsg+0x110/0x3a0<br />
___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2737 [inline]<br />
__sys_recvmsg+0x194/0x210 net/socket.c:2767<br />
__do_sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2777 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2774 [inline]<br />
__arm64_sys_recvmsg+0x2c/0x3c net/socket.c:2774<br />
__invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]<br />
invoke_syscall+0x64/0x178 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52<br />
el0_svc_common+0xbc/0x180 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142<br />
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x110 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:193<br />
el0_svc+0x58/0x14c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637<br />
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655<br />
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:591<br />
Code: 91388800 aa0903e1 f90003e8 94e6d752 (d4210000)
Impact
Base Score 3.x
7.10
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.19 (including) | 6.1.13 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc8:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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