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Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52779): linux-nvidia-6.5 vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 21, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function
When vfs_getattr_nosec() calls a filesystem's getattr interface function
then the 'nosec' should propagate into this function so that
vfs_getattr_nosec() can again be called from the filesystem's gettattr
rather than vfs_getattr(). The latter would add unnecessary security
checks that the initial vfs_getattr_nosec() call wanted to avoid.
Therefore, introduce the getattr flag GETATTR_NOSEC and allow to pass
with the new getattr_flags parameter to the getattr interface function.
In overlayfs and ecryptfs use this flag to determine which one of the
two functions to call.
In a recent code change introduced to IMA vfs_getattr_nosec() ended up
calling vfs_getattr() in overlayfs, which in turn called
security_inode_getattr() on an exiting process that did not have
current->fs set anymore, which then caused a kernel NULL pointer
dereference. With this change the call to security_inode_getattr() can
be avoided, thus avoiding the NULL pointer dereference.
Solution
References
- CVE-2023-52779
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-52779
- CWE-476
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/8a924db2d7b5eb69ba08b1a0af46e9f1359a9bdf
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fb0fa08641903304b9d81d52a379ff031dc41d4
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a924db2d7b5eb69ba08b1a0af46e9f1359a9bdf
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52779
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