Vulnerability · Published Mar 6, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-52603UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 78.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot Syzkaller reported the following issue: oop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 32768 UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971:9 index -2 is out of range for type 'struct dtslot [128]' CPU: 0 PID: 3613 Comm: syz-executor270 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:151 [inline] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xdb/0x130 lib/ubsan.c:283 dtSplitRoot+0x8d8/0x1900 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971 dtSplitUp fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:985 [inline] dtInsert+0x1189/0x6b80 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:863 jfs_mkdir+0x757/0xb00 fs/jfs/namei.c:270 vfs_mkdir+0x3b3/0x590 fs/namei.c:4013 do_mkdirat+0x279/0x550 fs/namei.c:4038 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4053 [inline] __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4051 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x85/0x90 fs/namei.c:4051 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7fcdc0113fd9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffeb8bc67d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fcdc0113fd9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000340 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007fcdc00d37a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fcdc00d37a0 R10: 00005555559a72c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000f8008000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00083878000000f8 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> The issue is caused when the value of fsi becomes less than -1. The check to break the loop when fsi value becomes -1 is present but syzbot was able to produce value less than -1 which cause the error. This patch simply add the change for the values less than 0. The patch is tested via syzbot.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.82-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52603
Debian:13linux6.7.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52603
Debian:14linux6.7.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-105.115USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-105.115UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1060.66UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1060.66USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.56.5.0-1018.18~22.04.1USN-6743-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.56.5.0-1018.18~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1061.70USN-6742-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1061.70UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1019.20~22.04.1USN-6743-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1019.20~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1061.70.1USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1061.70.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1058.66UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1058.66USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1018.18~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1018.18~22.04.1USN-6743-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1057.62UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1057.62USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1043.50UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1043.50USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-28.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-28.29~22.04.1USN-6743-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1053.56USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1053.56UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1055.61UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1055.61USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1057.62USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1057.62UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-105.115UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-105.115USN-6742-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-28.29.1~22.04.1USN-6743-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-28.29.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1053.54USN-6742-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1053.54UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1015.15USN-6743-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1025.25UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.16.1.0-1035.35UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.16.1.0-1035.35USN-6688-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1020.21UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1020.21USN-6743-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1058.64USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1058.64UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1021.21~22.04.1USN-6743-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1021.21~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1053.56USN-6742-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1053.56UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.56.5.0-28.29.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1012.13~22.04.1USN-6743-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1012.13~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1030.34UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before e30b52a2ea3d1e0aaee68096957cf90a2f4ec5af1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before fd3486a893778770557649fe28afa5e463d4ed071da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before 7aa33854477d9c346f5560a1a1fcb3fe7783e2a81da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before e4ce01c25ccbea02a09a5291c21749b1fc358e391da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before e4cbc857d75d4e22a1f75446e7480b1f305d8d601da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before edff092a59260bf0b0a2eba219cb3da6372c2f9f1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before 6e2902ecc77e9760a9fc447f56d598383e2372d21da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before 27e56f59bab5ddafbcfe69ad7a4a6ea1279c1b16
Linux Linux 2.6.12

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