x86/alternatives: Disable KASAN in apply_alternatives() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2023-52504
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/alternatives: Disable KASAN in apply_alternatives() Fei has reported that KASAN triggers during apply_alternatives() on a 5-level paging machine: BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in rcu_is_watching() Read of size 4 at addr ff110003ee6419a0 by task swapper/0/0 ... __asan_load4() rcu_is_watching() trace_hardirqs_on() text_poke_early() apply_alternatives() ... On machines with 5-level paging, cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LA57) gets patched. It includes KASAN code, where KASAN_SHADOW_START depends on __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT, which is defined with cpu_feature_enabled(). KASAN gets confused when apply_alternatives() patches the KASAN_SHADOW_START users. A test patch that makes KASAN_SHADOW_START static, by replacing __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT with 56, works around the issue. Fix it for real by disabling KASAN while the kernel is patching alternatives. [ mingo: updated the changelog ]

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 6657fca06e3ffab8d0b3f9d8b397f5ee498952d7 < 3719d3c36aa853d5a2401af9f8d6b116c91ad5ae ; affected 6657fca06e3ffab8d0b3f9d8b397f5ee498952d7 < 3770c38cd6a60494da29ac2da73ff8156440a2d1 ; affected 6657fca06e3ffab8d0b3f9d8b397f5ee498952d7 < 6788b10620ca6e98575d1e06e72a8974aad7657e ; affected 6657fca06e3ffab8d0b3f9d8b397f5ee498952d7 < ecba5afe86f30605eb9dfb7f265a8de0218d4cfc ; affected 6657fca06e3ffab8d0b3f9d8b397f5ee498952d7 < 5b784489c8158518bf7a466bb3cc045b0fb66b4b ; affected 6657fca06e3ffab8d0b3f9d8b397f5ee498952d7 < cd287cc208dfe6bd6da98e7f88e723209242c9b4
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.17 ; unaffected 0 < 4.17 ; unaffected 4.19.297 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.270 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.199 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.136 ≤ 5.15.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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