sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers (Linux Linux)

CVE-2023-52596
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.23 % · percentile 14 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to see if header is a permanently empty directory (used for mounts). This check evaluates the first element of the ctl_table. This results in an out of bounds evaluation when registering empty directories. The function register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_table of size 1 instead of size 0. It now relies solely on the type to identify a permanently empty register. Make sure that the ctl_table has at least one element before testing for permanent emptiness.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 9edbfe92a0a1355bae1e47c8f542ac0d39f19f8c < 15893975e9e382f8294ea8d926f08dc2d8d39ede ; affected 9edbfe92a0a1355bae1e47c8f542ac0d39f19f8c < 2ae7081bc10123b187e36a4f3a8e53768de31489 ; affected 9edbfe92a0a1355bae1e47c8f542ac0d39f19f8c < 315552310c7de92baea4e570967066569937a843
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.6 ; unaffected 0 < 6.6 ; unaffected 6.6.16 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.4 ≤ 6.7.* ; unaffected 6.8 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD