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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2023-23586: kernel security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2023-23586: kernel security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/17/2023
Created
07/05/2023
Added
07/05/2023
Modified
05/13/2024

Description

Due to a vulnerability in the io_uring subsystem, it is possible to leak kernel memory information to the user process. timens_install calls current_is_single_threaded to determine if the current process is single-threaded, but this call does not consider io_uring's io_worker threads, thus it is possible to insert a time namespace's vvar page to process's memory space via a page fault. When this time namespace is destroyed, the vvar page is also freed, but not removed from the process' memory, and a next page allocated by the kernel will be still available from the user-space process and can leak memory contents via this (read-only) use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past version 5.10.161 or commit  788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/io_uring

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-bpftool
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-python3-perf

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