Bug 2400795 (CVE-2023-53513) - CVE-2023-53513 kernel: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg
Summary: CVE-2023-53513 kernel: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53513
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-14 00:20 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:22095 0 None None None 2025-11-25 17:16:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:22124 0 None None None 2025-11-25 18:13:58 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:22387 0 None None None 2025-12-01 05:25:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:22388 0 None None None 2025-12-01 05:58:47 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:23424 0 None None None 2025-12-17 01:11:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:23426 0 None None None 2025-12-17 03:26:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:0532 0 None None None 2026-01-14 00:20:21 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:0533 0 None None None 2026-01-14 00:13:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:0536 0 None None None 2026-01-14 00:19:17 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:07:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg

We tested and found an alarm caused by nbd_ioctl arg without verification.
The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/buffer.c:1709:35
signed integer overflow:
-9223372036854775808 - 1 cannot be represented in type 'long long int'
CPU: 3 PID: 2523 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.90 #1
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3f0 arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:78
 show_stack+0x28/0x38 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:158
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x170/0x1dc lib/dump_stack.c:118
 ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0xb4 lib/ubsan.c:161
 handle_overflow+0x188/0x1dc lib/ubsan.c:192
 __ubsan_handle_sub_overflow+0x34/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:206
 __block_write_full_page+0x94c/0xa20 fs/buffer.c:1709
 block_write_full_page+0x1f0/0x280 fs/buffer.c:2934
 blkdev_writepage+0x34/0x40 fs/block_dev.c:607
 __writepage+0x68/0xe8 mm/page-writeback.c:2305
 write_cache_pages+0x44c/0xc70 mm/page-writeback.c:2240
 generic_writepages+0xdc/0x148 mm/page-writeback.c:2329
 blkdev_writepages+0x2c/0x38 fs/block_dev.c:2114
 do_writepages+0xd4/0x250 mm/page-writeback.c:2344

The reason for triggering this warning is __block_write_full_page()
-> i_size_read(inode) - 1 overflow.
inode->i_size is assigned in __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_set_size() -> bytesize.
We think it is necessary to limit the size of arg to prevent errors.

Moreover, __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_add_socket(), arg will be cast to int.
Assuming the value of arg is 0x80000000000000001) (on a 64-bit machine),
it will become 1 after the coercion, which will return unexpected results.

Fix it by adding checks to prevent passing in too large numbers.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-11-25 17:16:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:22095 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22095

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-11-25 18:13:57 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:22124 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22124

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-01 05:25:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:22387 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22387

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-01 05:58:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:22388 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22388

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-17 01:11:35 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:23424 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23424

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-17 03:26:24 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:23426 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23426

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-14 00:13:42 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On

Via RHSA-2026:0533 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0533

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-14 00:19:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2026:0536 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0536

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-14 00:20:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2026:0532 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0532


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