Bug 2268451 (CVE-2023-52496)

Summary:	CVE-2023-52496 kernel: mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mauro Matteo Cascella <mcascell>
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, scweaver, sidakwo, sukulkar, tglozar, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 6.6.15, kernel 6.7.3, kernel 6.8-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	[REJECTED CVE] In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52496 to this issue.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2268452
Bug Blocks:	2266913

Description Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-03-07 16:17:02 UTC

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

mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52496 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/20240229155245.1571576-37-lee@kernel.org/T

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-03-07 16:17:37 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2268452]

Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2024-03-07 23:37:29 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with eh 6.7.3 stable kernel updates.

Comment 6 Alex 2024-06-09 13:10:25 UTC

The result of automatic check (that is developed by Alexander Larkin) for this CVE-2023-52496 is: 	SKIP	No affected files built, so skip this CVE	NO			-	-	unknown (where first YES/NO value means if related sources built).

Comment 7 TEJ RATHI 2025-05-16 04:47:43 UTC

This CVE has been rejected upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024030811-REJECTED-9af0@gregkh/