Bug 2266347 (CVE-2023-52471)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-52471 kernel: null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Rohit Keshri <rkeshri> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| 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, mschmidt, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, sukulkar, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, vsroka, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A null pointer dereference problem was found in ice_ptp.c in ice in the Linux Kernel. This issue occurs when devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory, which can be NULL upon failure.
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| Bug Depends On: | 2266348 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 2266208 | ||
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Description
Rohit Keshri
2024-02-27 16:52:33 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266348] This was introduced in 6.7 and fixed in 6.7.2/6.8-rc1. It never hit stable Fedora releases. Small GFP_KERNEL allocations never fail. It is the de-facto rule of the Linux kernel known as "too small to fail". See: https://lwn.net/Articles/964793/ quote: "The kernel, for all practical purposes, already implements GFP_NOFAIL behavior for allocations of eight pages or less." And older articles about the same topic: https://lwn.net/Articles/723317/ https://lwn.net/Articles/627419/ Therefore, I don't think we should treat these missing checks as CVEs. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2024:5102 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5102 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2024:5101 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5101 |