linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53011: net: stmmac: enable all safety features by default

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Message-ID: <2025032715-CVE-2023-53011-6f98@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:43:58 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53011: net: stmmac: enable all safety features by default

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

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

net: stmmac: enable all safety features by default

In the original implementation of dwmac5
commit 8bf993a5877e ("net: stmmac: Add support for DWMAC5 and implement Safety Features")
all safety features were enabled by default.

Later it seems some implementations didn't have support for all the
features, so in
commit 5ac712dcdfef ("net: stmmac: enable platform specific safety features")
the safety_feat_cfg structure was added to the callback and defined for
some platforms to selectively enable these safety features.

The problem is that only certain platforms were given that software
support. If the automotive safety package bit is set in the hardware
features register the safety feature callback is called for the platform,
and for platforms that didn't get a safety_feat_cfg defined this results
in the following NULL pointer dereference:

[    7.933303] Call trace:
[    7.935812]  dwmac5_safety_feat_config+0x20/0x170 [stmmac]
[    7.941455]  __stmmac_open+0x16c/0x474 [stmmac]
[    7.946117]  stmmac_open+0x38/0x70 [stmmac]
[    7.950414]  __dev_open+0x100/0x1dc
[    7.954006]  __dev_change_flags+0x18c/0x204
[    7.958297]  dev_change_flags+0x24/0x6c
[    7.962237]  do_setlink+0x2b8/0xfa4
[    7.965827]  __rtnl_newlink+0x4ec/0x840
[    7.969766]  rtnl_newlink+0x50/0x80
[    7.973353]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x12c/0x374
[    7.977557]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x130
[    7.981500]  rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x2c
[    7.985172]  netlink_unicast+0x2e8/0x340
[    7.989197]  netlink_sendmsg+0x1a8/0x420
[    7.993222]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x218/0x280
[    7.997249]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xac/0x100
[    8.001103]  __sys_sendmsg+0x84/0xe0
[    8.004776]  __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x24/0x30
[    8.008983]  invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
[    8.012840]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0xec
[    8.017665]  do_el0_svc+0x38/0xb0
[    8.021071]  el0_svc+0x2c/0x84
[    8.024212]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120
[    8.028598]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194

Go back to the original behavior, if the automotive safety package
is found to be supported in hardware enable all the features unless
safety_feat_cfg is passed in saying this particular platform only
supports a subset of the features.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53011 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.14 with commit 5ac712dcdfefb1a783384db85e0507d161e87812 and fixed in 5.15.91 with commit 120b8e527e07c65de7f2b9018dcd9d17e66f2427
	Issue introduced in 5.14 with commit 5ac712dcdfefb1a783384db85e0507d161e87812 and fixed in 6.1.9 with commit aebf7e62708ba706ee7bf484c9023b15c214e92a
	Issue introduced in 5.14 with commit 5ac712dcdfefb1a783384db85e0507d161e87812 and fixed in 6.2 with commit fdfc76a116b5e9d3e98e6c96fe83b42d011d21d4

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-2023-53011
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:
	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac5.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/120b8e527e07c65de7f2b9018dcd9d17e66f2427
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aebf7e62708ba706ee7bf484c9023b15c214e92a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdfc76a116b5e9d3e98e6c96fe83b42d011d21d4