Description

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

net: mvneta: fix calls to page_pool_get_stats

Calling page_pool_get_stats in the mvneta driver without checks
leads to kernel crashes.
First the page pool is only available if the bm is not used.
The page pool is also not allocated when the port is stopped.
It can also be not allocated in case of errors.

The current implementation leads to the following crash calling
ethstats on a port that is down or when calling it at the wrong moment:

ble to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070
[00000070] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
Hardware name: Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
PC is at page_pool_get_stats+0x18/0x1cc
LR is at mvneta_ethtool_get_stats+0xa0/0xe0 [mvneta]
pc : [] lr : [] psr: a0000013
sp : f1439d48 ip : f1439dc0 fp : 0000001d
r10: 00000100 r9 : c4816b80 r8 : f0d75150
r7 : bf0b400c r6 : c238f000 r5 : 00000000 r4 : f1439d68
r3 : c2091040 r2 : ffffffd8 r1 : f1439d68 r0 : 00000000
Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
Control: 10c5387d Table: 066b004a DAC: 00000051
Register r0 information: NULL pointer
Register r1 information: 2-page vmalloc region starting at 0xf1438000 allocated at kernel_clone+0x9c/0x390
Register r2 information: non-paged memory
Register r3 information: slab kmalloc-2k start c2091000 pointer offset 64 size 2048
Register r4 information: 2-page vmalloc region starting at 0xf1438000 all...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52780

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00768b3e90e648227eaa959d9d279f5e32823df1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/230dc06e2495487d88b3410da055bb618febb19b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b0e99072654edd601d05c0061a20337af5008ba
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca8add922f9c7f6e2e3c71039da8e0dcc64b87ed

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