Description

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

drivers: perf: Check find_first_bit() return value

We must check the return value of find_first_bit() before using the
return value as an index array since it happens to overflow the array
and then panic:

[ 107.318430] Kernel BUG [#1]
[ 107.319434] CPU: 3 PID: 1238 Comm: kill Tainted: G E 6.6.0-rc6ubuntu-defconfig #2
[ 107.319465] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 107.319551] epc : pmu_sbi_ovf_handler+0x3a4/0x3ae
[ 107.319840] ra : pmu_sbi_ovf_handler+0x52/0x3ae
[ 107.319868] epc : ffffffff80a0a77c ra : ffffffff80a0a42a sp : ffffaf83fecda350
[ 107.319884] gp : ffffffff823961a8 tp : ffffaf8083db1dc0 t0 : ffffaf83fecda480
[ 107.319899] t1 : ffffffff80cafe62 t2 : 000000000000ff00 s0 : ffffaf83fecda520
[ 107.319921] s1 : ffffaf83fecda380 a0 : 00000018fca29df0 a1 : ffffffffffffffff
[ 107.319936] a2 : 0000000001073734 a3 : 0000000000000004 a4 : 0000000000000000
[ 107.319951] a5 : 0000000000000040 a6 : 000000001d1c8774 a7 : 0000000000504d55
[ 107.319965] s2 : ffffffff82451f10 s3 : ffffffff82724e70 s4 : 000000000000003f
[ 107.319980] s5 : 0000000000000011 s6 : ffffaf8083db27c0 s7 : 0000000000000000
[ 107.319995] s8 : 0000000000000001 s9 : 00007fffb45d6558 s10: 00007fffb45d81a0
[ 107.320009] s11: ffffaf7ffff60000 t3 : 0000000000000004 t4 : 0000000000000000
[ 107.320023] t5 : ffffaf7f80000000 t6 : ffffaf8000000000
[ 107.320037] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52797

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (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/2c86b24095fcf72cf51bc72d12e4350163b4e11d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a0de41ec383c8b7c6d442734ba3852dd2fc4a7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6e316ac05532febb0c966fa9b55f5258ed037be

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