Bug 2265649 (CVE-2023-52450)

Summary:	CVE-2023-52450 kernel: intel: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue in upi_fill_topology()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, esandeen, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	2292518
Bug Blocks:	2265643

Description Patrick Del Bello 2024-02-23 13:47:12 UTC

perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue in upi_fill_topology()

Get logical socket id instead of physical id in discover_upi_topology()
to avoid out-of-bound access on 'upi = &type->topology[nid][idx];' line
that leads to NULL pointer dereference in upi_fill_topology()

Comment 3 Alex 2024-06-09 15:22:28 UTC

The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2023-52450 is: CHECK	Maybe valid. Check manually. with impact MODERATE (that is approximation based on flags WRITE OOB NULLPTR SIMPLEFIX LOG  ; these flags parsed automatically based on patche data). Such automatic check happens only for Low/Moderates (and only when not from reporter, but parsing already existing CVE). Highs always checked manually (I check it myself and then we check it again in Remediation team). In rare cases some of the Moderates could be increased to High later.

Comment 4 Keith Grant 2024-06-15 18:25:06 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2292518]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-07-24 13:11:02 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:4823 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4823

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-07-24 13:23:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:4831 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4831