CVE-2023-52895 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/poll: don’t reissue in case of poll race on multishot request

A previous commit fixed a poll race that can occur but it’s only applicable for multishot requests. For a multishot request we can safely ignore a spurious wakeup as we never leave the waitqueue to begin with.

A blunt reissue of a multishot armed request can cause us to leak a buffer if they are ring provided. While this seems like a bug in itself it’s not really defined behavior to reissue a multishot request directly. It’s less efficient to do so as well and not required to rearm anything like it is for singleshot poll requests.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36fc7317cdb16cfeae0f879916995037bb615ac4 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8caa03f10bf92cb8657408a6ece6a8a73f96ce13