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Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52596): linux-raspi-realtime vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Mar 6, 2024 | Feb 11, 2025 | May 22, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to see
if header is a permanently empty directory (used for mounts). This check
evaluates the first element of the ctl_table. This results in an out of
bounds evaluation when registering empty directories.
The function register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_table of size
1 instead of size 0. It now relies solely on the type to identify
a permanently empty register.
Make sure that the ctl_table has at least one element before testing for
permanent emptiness.
Solution
References
- CVE-2023-52596
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-52596
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/315552310c7de92baea4e570967066569937a843
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15893975e9e382f8294ea8d926f08dc2d8d39ede
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ae7081bc10123b187e36a4f3a8e53768de31489
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/315552310c7de92baea4e570967066569937a843
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52596

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