Bug 2420297 (CVE-2023-53800)

Summary:	CVE-2023-53800 kernel: ubi: Fix use-after-free when volume resizing failed
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 01:06:48 UTC

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

ubi: Fix use-after-free when volume resizing failed

There is an use-after-free problem reported by KASAN:
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  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ubi_eba_copy_table+0x11f/0x1c0 [ubi]
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff888101eec008 by task ubirsvol/4735

  CPU: 2 PID: 4735 Comm: ubirsvol
  Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1-00003-g84fa3304a7fc-dirty #14
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
  BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
   print_report+0x171/0x472
   kasan_report+0xad/0x130
   ubi_eba_copy_table+0x11f/0x1c0 [ubi]
   ubi_resize_volume+0x4f9/0xbc0 [ubi]
   ubi_cdev_ioctl+0x701/0x1850 [ubi]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x11d/0x170
   do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
   </TASK>

When ubi_change_vtbl_record() returns an error in ubi_resize_volume(),
"new_eba_tbl" will be freed on error handing path, but it is holded
by "vol->eba_tbl" in ubi_eba_replace_table(). It means that the liftcycle
of "vol->eba_tbl" and "vol" are different, so when resizing volume in
next time, it causing an use-after-free fault.

Fix it by not freeing "new_eba_tbl" after it replaced in
ubi_eba_replace_table(), while will be freed in next volume resizing.

Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-10 03:13:28 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120942-CVE-2023-53800-eb42@gregkh/T