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Message-ID: <2024052159-CVE-2023-52733-601c@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:23:10 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-52733: s390/decompressor: specify __decompress() buf len to avoid overflow

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

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

s390/decompressor: specify __decompress() buf len to avoid overflow

Historically calls to __decompress() didn't specify "out_len" parameter
on many architectures including s390, expecting that no writes beyond
uncompressed kernel image are performed. This has changed since commit
2aa14b1ab2c4 ("zstd: import usptream v1.5.2") which includes zstd library
commit 6a7ede3dfccb ("Reduce size of dctx by reutilizing dst buffer
(#2751)"). Now zstd decompression code might store literal buffer in
the unwritten portion of the destination buffer. Since "out_len" is
not set, it is considered to be unlimited and hence free to use for
optimization needs. On s390 this might corrupt initrd or ipl report
which are often placed right after the decompressor buffer. Luckily the
size of uncompressed kernel image is already known to the decompressor,
so to avoid the problem simply specify it in the "out_len" parameter.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52733 to this issue.

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

	Fixed in 5.4.232 with commit 16409f7d9ca5
	Fixed in 5.10.169 with commit 55dbd6f4ea95
	Fixed in 5.15.95 with commit 9ed522143f95
	Fixed in 6.1.13 with commit f1eb22d0ff06
	Fixed in 6.2 with commit 7ab41c2c08a3

Please see https://www.kernel.org for 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-2023-52733
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:
	arch/s390/boot/decompressor.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/16409f7d9ca5bb8220e1049ea9aae0d3c94d2dfb
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55dbd6f4ea954751340f4f73d5dcd7c8f12208b2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ed522143f959630f8b7782ddc212900d8f609a9
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1eb22d0ff064ad458b3b1a1eaa84ac3996206c2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ab41c2c08a32132ba8c14624910e2fe8ce4ba4b