Description

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

scsi: hisi_sas: Set debugfs_dir pointer to NULL after removing debugfs

If init debugfs failed during device registration due to memory allocation
failure, debugfs_remove_recursive() is called, after which debugfs_dir is
not set to NULL. debugfs_remove_recursive() will be called again during
device removal. As a result, illegal pointer is accessed.

[ 1665.467244] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: failed to init debugfs!
...
[ 1669.836708] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000a0
[ 1669.872669] pc : down_write+0x24/0x70
[ 1669.876315] lr : down_write+0x1c/0x70
[ 1669.879961] sp : ffff000036f53a30
[ 1669.883260] x29: ffff000036f53a30 x28: ffffa027c31549f8
[ 1669.888547] x27: ffffa027c3140000 x26: 0000000000000000
[ 1669.893834] x25: ffffa027bf37c270 x24: ffffa027bf37c270
[ 1669.899122] x23: ffff0000095406b8 x22: ffff0000095406a8
[ 1669.904408] x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffffa027bf37c310
[ 1669.909695] x19: 00000000000000a0 x18: ffff8027dcd86f10
[ 1669.914982] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
[ 1669.920268] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: ffffa0274014f870
[ 1669.925555] x13: 0000000000000040 x12: 0000000000000228
[ 1669.930842] x11: 0000000000000020 x10: 0000000000000bb0
[ 1669.936129] x9 : ffff000036f537f0 x8 : ffff80273088ca10
[ 1669.941416] x7 : 000000000000001d x6 : 00000000ffffffff
[ 1669.946702] x5 : ffff000008a36310 x4 : ffff80273088be00
[ 1669.951989] x3 ...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52808

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/f0bfc8a5561fb0b2c48183dcbfe00bdd6d973bd3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33331b265aac9441ac0c1a5442e3f05d038240ec
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75a2656260fe8c7eeabda6ff4600b29e183f48db
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4465009e7d60c6111946db4c8f1e50d401ed7be
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6de426f9276c448e2db7238911c97fb157cb23be

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