Bug 2363704 (CVE-2023-53065)

Summary: CVE-2023-53065 kernel: perf/core: Fix perf_output_begin parameter is incorrectly invoked in perf_event_bpf_output
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:02:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

perf/core: Fix perf_output_begin parameter is incorrectly invoked in perf_event_bpf_output

syzkaller reportes a KASAN issue with stack-out-of-bounds.
The call trace is as follows:
  dump_stack+0x9c/0xd3
  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x19/0x170
  __kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84
  kasan_report+0x3a/0x50
  __perf_event_header__init_id+0x34/0x290
  perf_event_header__init_id+0x48/0x60
  perf_output_begin+0x4a4/0x560
  perf_event_bpf_output+0x161/0x1e0
  perf_iterate_sb_cpu+0x29e/0x340
  perf_iterate_sb+0x4c/0xc0
  perf_event_bpf_event+0x194/0x2c0
  __bpf_prog_put.constprop.0+0x55/0xf0
  __cls_bpf_delete_prog+0xea/0x120 [cls_bpf]
  cls_bpf_delete_prog_work+0x1c/0x30 [cls_bpf]
  process_one_work+0x3c2/0x730
  worker_thread+0x93/0x650
  kthread+0x1b8/0x210
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

commit 267fb27352b6 ("perf: Reduce stack usage of perf_output_begin()")
use on-stack struct perf_sample_data of the caller function.

However, perf_event_bpf_output uses incorrect parameter to convert
small-sized data (struct perf_bpf_event) into large-sized data
(struct perf_sample_data), which causes memory overwriting occurs in
__perf_event_header__init_id.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 05:18:10 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050211-CVE-2023-53065-0292@gregkh/T