CVE-2023-53108

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Moderate Moderate Impact What does this mean?
5.5 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: Fix size of interrupt data iucv_irq_data needs to be 4 bytes larger. These bytes are not used by the iucv module, but written by the z/VM hypervisor in case a CPU is deconfigured. Reported as: BUG dma-kmalloc-64 (Not tainted): kmalloc Redzone overwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x0000000000400564-0x0000000000400567 @offset=1380. First byte 0x80 instead of 0xcc Allocated in iucv_cpu_prepare+0x44/0xd0 age=167839 cpu=2 pid=1 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x166/0x450 kmalloc_node_trace+0x3a/0x70 iucv_cpu_prepare+0x44/0xd0 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x156/0x2f0 cpuhp_issue_call+0xf0/0x298 __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x136/0x338 __cpuhp_setup_state+0xf4/0x288 iucv_init+0xf4/0x280 do_one_initcall+0x78/0x390 do_initcalls+0x11a/0x140 kernel_init_freeable+0x25e/0x2a0 kernel_init+0x2e/0x170 __ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x58 ret_from_fork+0xa/0x40 Freed in iucv_init+0x92/0x280 age=167839 cpu=2 pid=1 __kmem_cache_free+0x308/0x358 iucv_init+0x92/0x280 do_one_initcall+0x78/0x390 do_initcalls+0x11a/0x140 kernel_init_freeable+0x25e/0x2a0 kernel_init+0x2e/0x170 __ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x58 ret_from_fork+0xa/0x40 Slab 0x0000037200010000 objects=32 used=30 fp=0x0000000000400640 flags=0x1ffff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=0| Object 0x0000000000400540 @offset=1344 fp=0x0000000000000000 Redzone 0000000000400500: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ................ Redzone 0000000000400510: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ................ Redzone 0000000000400520: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ................ Redzone 0000000000400530: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ................ Object 0000000000400540: 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ Object 0000000000400550: f3 86 81 f2 f4 82 f8 82 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f2 ................ Object 0000000000400560: 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ................ Object 0000000000400570: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ................ Redzone 0000000000400580: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ........ Padding 00000000004005d4: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Padding 00000000004005e4: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Padding 00000000004005f4: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZ CPU: 6 PID: 121030 Comm: 116-pai-crypto. Not tainted 6.3.0-20230221.rc0.git4.99b8246b2d71.300.fc37.s390x+debug #1 Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 704 (z/VM 7.3.0) Call Trace: [<000000032aa034ec>] dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0x100 [<0000000329f5a6cc>] check_bytes_and_report+0x104/0x140 [<0000000329f5aa78>] check_object+0x370/0x3c0 [<0000000329f5ede6>] free_debug_processing+0x15e/0x348 [<0000000329f5f06a>] free_to_partial_list+0x9a/0x2f0 [<0000000329f5f4a4>] __slab_free+0x1e4/0x3a8 [<0000000329f61768>] __kmem_cache_free+0x308/0x358 [<000000032a91465c>] iucv_cpu_dead+0x6c/0x88 [<0000000329c2fc66>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x156/0x2f0 [<000000032aa062da>] _cpu_down.constprop.0+0x22a/0x5e0 [<0000000329c3243e>] cpu_device_down+0x4e/0x78 [<000000032a61dee0>] device_offline+0xc8/0x118 [<000000032a61e048>] online_store+0x60/0xe0 [<000000032a08b6b0>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x150/0x1e8 [<0000000329fab65c>] vfs_write+0x174/0x360 [<0000000329fab9fc>] ksys_write+0x74/0x100 [<000000032aa03a5a>] __do_syscall+0x1da/0x208 [<000000032aa177b2>] system_call+0x82/0xb0 INFO: lockdep is turned off. FIX dma-kmalloc-64: Restoring kmalloc Redzone 0x0000000000400564-0x0000000000400567=0xcc FIX dma-kmalloc-64: Object at 0x0000000000400540 not freed

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53108

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53108

Content from lore.kernel.org is not included.https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050226-CVE-2023-53108-d921@gregkh/T

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-rt Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel Fixed RHSA-2023:7077
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel Fixed RHSA-2023:6583
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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