vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52910): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 21, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | May 22, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/iova: Fix alloc iova overflows issue
In __alloc_and_insert_iova_range, there is an issue that retry_pfn
overflows. The value of iovad->anchor.pfn_hi is ~0UL, then when
iovad->cached_node is iovad->anchor, curr_iova->pfn_hi + 1 will
overflow. As a result, if the retry logic is executed, low_pfn is
updated to 0, and then new_pfn allocation successful.
This issue occurs in the following two situations:
1. The first iova size exceeds the domain size. When initializing
iova domain, iovad->cached_node is assigned as iovad->anchor. For
example, the iova domain size is 10M, start_pfn is 0x1_F000_0000,
and the iova size allocated for the first time is 11M. The
following is the log information, new->pfn_lo is smaller than
iovad->cached_node.
Example log as follows:
[ 223.798112][T1705487] sh: [name:iova&]__alloc_and_insert_iova_range
start_pfn:0x1f0000,retry_pfn:0x0,size:0xb00,limit_pfn:0x1f0a00
[ 223.799590][T1705487] sh: [name:iova&]__alloc_and_insert_iova_range
success start_pfn:0x1f0000,new->pfn_lo:0x1efe00,new->pfn_hi:0x1f08ff
2. The node with the largest iova->pfn_lo value in the iova domain
is deleted, iovad->cached_node will be updated to iovad->anchor,
and then the alloc iova size exceeds the maximum iova size that can
be allocated in the domain.
After judging that retry_pfn is less than limit_pfn, call retry_pfn+1
to fix the overflow issue.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2023-52910
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-52910
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/dcdb3ba7e2a8caae7bfefd603bc22fd0ce9a389c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61cbf790e7329ed78877560be7136f0b911bba7f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c929a230c84441e400c32e7b7b4ab763711fb63e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcdb3ba7e2a8caae7bfefd603bc22fd0ce9a389c
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52910

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