CVE-2023-46813 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.5.9 exploitable by local users with userspace access to MMIO registers. Incorrect access checking in the VC handler and instruction emulation of the SEV-ES emulation of MMIO accesses could lead to arbitrary write access to kernel memory (and thus privilege escalation). This depends on a race condition through which userspace can replace an instruction before the VC handler reads it.

Reference

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.5.9 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b9cb9c45583b911e0db71d09caa6b56469eb2bdf https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=63e44bc52047f182601e7817da969a105aa1f721 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212649 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a37cd2a59d0cb270b1bba568fd3a3b8668b9d3ba