CVE-2023-52817

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Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix a null pointer access when the smc_rreg pointer is NULL In certain types of chips, such as VEGA20, reading the amdgpu_regs_smc file could result in an abnormal null pointer access when the smc_rreg pointer is NULL. Below are the steps to reproduce this issue and the corresponding exception log: 1. Navigate to the directory: /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0 2. Execute command: cat amdgpu_regs_smc 3. Exception Log:: [4005007.702554] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [4005007.702562] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode [4005007.702567] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page [4005007.702570] PGD 0 P4D 0 [4005007.702576] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI [4005007.702581] CPU: 4 PID: 62563 Comm: cat Tainted: G OE 5.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubunt u [4005007.702590] RIP: 0010:0x0 [4005007.702598] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6. [4005007.702600] RSP: 0018:ffffa82b46d27da0 EFLAGS: 00010206 [4005007.702605] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffa82b46d27e68 [4005007.702609] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9940656e0000 [4005007.702612] RBP: ffffa82b46d27dd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff994060c07980 [4005007.702615] R10: 0000000000020000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00007f5e06753000 [4005007.702618] R13: ffff9940656e0000 R14: ffffa82b46d27e68 R15: 00007f5e06753000 [4005007.702622] FS: 00007f5e0755b740(0000) GS:ffff99479d300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [4005007.702626] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [4005007.702629] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 00000003253fc000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 [4005007.702633] Call Trace: [4005007.702636] <TASK> [4005007.702640] amdgpu_debugfs_regs_smc_read+0xb0/0x120 [amdgpu] [4005007.703002] full_proxy_read+0x5c/0x80 [4005007.703011] vfs_read+0x9f/0x1a0 [4005007.703019] ksys_read+0x67/0xe0 [4005007.703023] __x64_sys_read+0x19/0x20 [4005007.703028] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xc0 [4005007.703034] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x1e3/0x670 [4005007.703040] ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x37/0xb0 [4005007.703047] ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x20 [4005007.703052] ? irqentry_exit+0x19/0x30 [4005007.703057] ? exc_page_fault+0x89/0x160 [4005007.703062] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30 [4005007.703068] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [4005007.703075] RIP: 0033:0x7f5e07672992 [4005007.703079] Code: c0 e9 b2 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d fa b2 0c 00 e8 c5 1d 02 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 56 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 e c 28 48 89 54 24 [4005007.703083] RSP: 002b:00007ffe03097898 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [4005007.703088] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f5e07672992 [4005007.703091] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f5e06753000 RDI: 0000000000000003 [4005007.703094] RBP: 00007f5e06753000 R08: 00007f5e06752010 R09: 00007f5e06752010 [4005007.703096] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000022000 [4005007.703099] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000 [4005007.703105] </TASK> [4005007.703107] Modules linked in: nf_tables libcrc32c nfnetlink algif_hash af_alg binfmt_misc nls_ iso8859_1 ipmi_ssif ast intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common drm_vram_helper drm_ttm_helper amd64_edac t tm edac_mce_amd kvm_amd ccp mac_hid k10temp kvm acpi_ipmi ipmi_si rapl sch_fq_codel ipmi_devintf ipm i_msghandler msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport mtd pstore_blk efi_pstore ramoops pstore_zone reed_solo mon ip_tables x_tables autofs4 ib_uverbs ib_core amdgpu(OE) amddrm_ttm_helper(OE) amdttm(OE) iommu_v 2 amd_sched(OE) amdkcl(OE) drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops cec rc_core drm igb ahci xhci_pci libahci i2c_piix4 i2c_algo_bit xhci_pci_renesas dca [4005007.703184] CR2: 0000000000000000 [4005007.703188] ---[ en ---truncated---

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52817

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52817

Content from lore.kernel.org is not included.https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024052104-CVE-2023-52817-ba29@gregkh/T

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-rt Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel Fixed RHSA-2024:7000
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt Fixed RHSA-2024:7001
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel Fixed RHSA-2024:2394
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel Fixed This content is not included.RHSA-2024:9315
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 5.5 5.5
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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