linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-52501: ring-buffer: Do not attempt to read past "commit"

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Date: Sat,  2 Mar 2024 22:52:46 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-52501: ring-buffer: Do not attempt to read past "commit"

Description
===========

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

ring-buffer: Do not attempt to read past "commit"

When iterating over the ring buffer while the ring buffer is active, the
writer can corrupt the reader. There's barriers to help detect this and
handle it, but that code missed the case where the last event was at the
very end of the page and has only 4 bytes left.

The checks to detect the corruption by the writer to reads needs to see the
length of the event. If the length in the first 4 bytes is zero then the
length is stored in the second 4 bytes. But if the writer is in the process
of updating that code, there's a small window where the length in the first
4 bytes could be zero even though the length is only 4 bytes. That will
cause rb_event_length() to read the next 4 bytes which could happen to be off the
allocated page.

To protect against this, fail immediately if the next event pointer is
less than 8 bytes from the end of the commit (last byte of data), as all
events must be a minimum of 8 bytes anyway.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52501 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.10.198 with commit cee5151c5410
	Fixed in 5.15.134 with commit 344f2f3e61a9
	Fixed in 6.1.56 with commit b08a4938229d
	Fixed in 6.5.6 with commit 75fc9e99b3a7
	Fixed in 6.6 with commit 95a404bd60af

Please see https://www.kernel.org or a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-52501
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cee5151c5410e868826b8afecfb356f3799ebea3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/344f2f3e61a90f0150c754796ec9a17fcaeec03d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b08a4938229dbb530a35c41b83002a1457c6ff49
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75fc9e99b3a71006720ad1e029db11a4b5c32d4a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95a404bd60af6c4d9d8db01ad14fe8957ece31ca