Bug 2424953 (CVE-2023-53987)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-53987 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service via NULL dereference in ping socket handling | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit a potential NULL dereference vulnerability in the `ping` socket handling when accessing `/proc/net/icmp`. This issue arises from an incorrect use of Read-Copy Update (RCU) instead of a spinlock. Successful exploitation of this flaw could lead to a system crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ping: Fix potentail NULL deref for /proc/net/icmp. After commit dbca1596bbb0 ("ping: convert to RCU lookups, get rid of rwlock"), we use RCU for ping sockets, but we should use spinlock for /proc/net/icmp to avoid a potential NULL deref mentioned in the previous patch. Let's go back to using spinlock there. Note we can convert ping sockets to use hlist instead of hlist_nulls because we do not use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for ping sockets.