CVE-2023-52497 Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-6356137
- published 2 Mar 2024
- disclosed 29 Feb 2024
Introduced: 29 Feb 2024
CVE-2023-52497 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-doc.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: fix lz4 inplace decompression
Currently EROFS can map another compressed buffer for inplace decompression, that was used to handle the cases that some pages of compressed data are actually not in-place I/O.
However, like most simple LZ77 algorithms, LZ4 expects the compressed data is arranged at the end of the decompressed buffer and it explicitly uses memmove() to handle overlapping:
|_ direction of decompression --> ____ |_ compressed data _|
Although EROFS arranges compressed data like this, it typically maps two individual virtual buffers so the relative order is uncertain. Previously, it was hardly observed since LZ4 only uses memmove() for short overlapped literals and x86/arm64 memmove implementations seem to completely cover it up and they don't have this issue. Juhyung reported that EROFS data corruption can be found on a new Intel x86 processor. After some analysis, it seems that recent x86 processors with the new FSRM feature expose this issue with "rep movsb".
Let's strictly use the decompressed buffer for lz4 inplace decompression for now. Later, as an useful improvement, we could try to tie up these two buffers together in the correct order.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52497
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ff2d260b25df6fe1341a79113d88fecf6bd553e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33bf23c9940dbd3a22aad7f0cda4c84ed5701847
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c12466b6b7bf1e56f9b32c366a3d83d87afb4de
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77cbc04a1a8610e303a0e0d74f2676667876a184
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0180e940cf1aefa7d516e20b259ad34f7a8b379
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bffc4cc334c5bb31ded54bc3cfd651735a3cb79e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f36d200a80a3ca025532ed60dd1ac21b620e14ae