CVE-2023-52598 Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELDEVEL-7263710
  • published15 Jun 2024
  • disclosed6 Mar 2024

Introduced: 6 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-52598  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-devel to version 0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:3618.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-devel package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/ptrace: handle setting of fpc register correctly

If the content of the floating point control (fpc) register of a traced process is modified with the ptrace interface the new value is tested for validity by temporarily loading it into the fpc register.

This may lead to corruption of the fpc register of the tracing process: if an interrupt happens while the value is temporarily loaded into the fpc register, and within interrupt context floating point or vector registers are used, the current fp/vx registers are saved with save_fpu_regs() assuming they belong to user space and will be loaded into fp/vx registers when returning to user space.

test_fp_ctl() restores the original user space fpc register value, however it will be discarded, when returning to user space.

In result the tracer will incorrectly continue to run with the value that was supposed to be used for the traced process.

Fix this by saving fpu register contents with save_fpu_regs() before using test_fp_ctl().

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