CVE-2023-52617

Published: 18 March 2024

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: switchtec: Fix stdev_release() crash after surprise hot remove A PCI device hot removal may occur while stdev->cdev is held open. The call to stdev_release() then happens during close or exit, at a point way past switchtec_pci_remove(). Otherwise the last ref would vanish with the trailing put_device(), just before return. At that later point in time, the devm cleanup has already removed the stdev->mmio_mrpc mapping. Also, the stdev->pdev reference was not a counted one. Therefore, in DMA mode, the iowrite32() in stdev_release() will cause a fatal page fault, and the subsequent dma_free_coherent(), if reached, would pass a stale &stdev->pdev->dev pointer. Fix by moving MRPC DMA shutdown into switchtec_pci_remove(), after stdev_kill(). Counting the stdev->pdev ref is now optional, but may prevent future accidents. Reproducible via the script at https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231113212150.96410-1-dns@arista.com

Notes

USN-6765-1 for linux-oem-6.5 wrongly stated that this CVE
was fixed in version 6.5.0-1022.23. The mentioned notice was revoked and
the state of the fix for linux-oem-6.5 was recovered to the previous
state.

Status

References

• https://git.kernel.org/linus/df25461119d987b8c81d232cfe4411e91dcabe66 (6.8-rc1)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8c293549946ee5078ed0ab77793cec365559355
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a5d0528cf19dbf060313dffbe047bc11c90c24c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1c7e2fb9e9c3f53715fbe04d3ac47b80be7eb8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d83c85922647758c1f1e4806a4c5c3cf591a20a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0233b836312e39a3c763fb53512b3fa455b473b3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e129c7fa7070fbce57feb0bfc5eaa65eef44b693
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df25461119d987b8c81d232cfe4411e91dcabe66
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52617
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6767-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6767-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6795-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6828-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-4
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-4
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian