CVE-2023-52483 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mctp: perform route lookups under a RCU read-side lock

Our current route lookups (mctp_route_lookup and mctp_route_lookup_null) traverse the net’s route list without the RCU read lock held. This means the route lookup is subject to preemption resulting in an potential grace period expiry and so an eventual kfree() while we still have the route pointer.

Add the proper read-side critical section locks around the route lookups preventing premption and a possible parallel kfree.

The remaining net->mctp.routes accesses are already under a rcu_read_lock or protected by the RTNL for updates.

Based on an analysis from Sili Luo rootlab@huawei.com where introducing a delay in the route lookup could cause a UAF on simultaneous sendmsg() and route deletion.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c52b12159049046483fdb0c411a0a1869c41a67 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1db0724a01b558feb1ecae551782add1951a114a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2405f64a95a7a094eb24cba9bcfaffd1ea264de4 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5093bbfc10ab6636b32728e35813cbd79feb063c