Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

IB/IPoIB: Fix legacy IPoIB due to wrong number of queues

The cited commit creates child PKEY interfaces over netlink will
multiple tx and rx queues, but some devices doesn't support more than 1
tx and 1 rx queues. This causes to a crash when traffic is sent over the
PKEY interface due to the parent having a single queue but the child
having multiple queues.

This patch fixes the number of queues to 1 for legacy IPoIB at the
earliest possible point in time.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000036b
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 4 PID: 209665 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.1.0_for_upstream_min_debug_2022_12_12_17_02 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0xcb/0x450
Code: ce 7e 49 8b 50 08 49 83 78 10 00 4d 8b 28 0f 84 cb 02 00 00 4d 85 ed 0f 84 c2 02 00 00 41 8b 44 24 28 48 8d 4a
01 49 8b 3c 24 <49> 8b 5c 05 00 4c 89 e8 65 48 0f c7 0f 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 b8 41 8b
RSP: 0018:ffff88822acbbab8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000070 RBX: ffff8881c28e3e00 RCX: 00000000064f8dae
RDX: 00000000064f8dad RSI: 0000000000000a20 RDI: 0000000000030d00
RBP: 0000000000000a20 R08: ffff8882f5d30d00 R09: ffff888104032f40
R10: ffff88810fade828 R11: 736f6d6570736575 R12: ffff88810081c000
R13: 00000000000002fb R14: ffffffff817fc865 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f9324ff9700(0000) GS:ffff8882f5d00000(00...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52745

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.81% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a779187db39b2f32d048a752573e56e4e77807f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1afb666c32931667c15ad1b58e7203f0119dcaf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4ef90cbcfa603b3bb536fbd6f261197012b6f6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7197460dcd43ff0e4a502ba855dd82d37c2848cc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e632291a2dbce45a24cddeb5fe28fe71d724ba43

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