linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53265: ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size <= alloc, size

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Message-ID: <2025091602-CVE-2023-53265-72a1@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:07:03 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53265: ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size <= alloc, size

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size <= alloc, size

Ensure that the VID header offset + VID header size does not exceed
the allocated area to avoid slab OOB.

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802bb36f00 by task syz-executor136/1555

CPU: 2 PID: 1555 Comm: syz-executor136 Tainted: G        W
6.0.0-1868 #1
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module+el8.3.0+7860+a7792d29
04/01/2014
Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0x85/0xad lib/dump_stack.c:106
  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline]
  print_report.cold.13+0xb6/0x6bb mm/kasan/report.c:433
  kasan_report+0xa7/0x11b mm/kasan/report.c:495
  crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline]
  crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline]
  crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197
  ubi_io_write_vid_hdr+0x1b7/0x472 drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:1067
  create_vtbl+0x4d5/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:317
  create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline]
  ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812
  ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601
  ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965
  ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043
  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
  __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
  __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0
RIP: 0033:0x7f96d5cf753d
Code:
RSP: 002b:00007fffd72206f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f96d5cf753d
RDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 0000000040186f40 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000400cd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400be0
R13: 00007fffd72207e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  </TASK>

Allocated by task 1555:
  kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x3d mm/kasan/common.c:38
  kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
  set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline]
  ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:516 [inline]
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xa3 mm/kasan/common.c:525
  kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
  __kmalloc+0x138/0x257 mm/slub.c:4429
  kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:605 [inline]
  ubi_alloc_vid_buf drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:1093 [inline]
  create_vtbl+0xcc/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:295
  create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline]
  ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812
  ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601
  ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965
  ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043
  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
  __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
  __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bb36e00
  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
  256-byte region [ffff88802bb36e00, ffff88802bb36f00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000ea4d1263 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0x0 pfn:0x2bb36
head:00000000ea4d1263 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
raw: 000fffffc0010200 ffffea000066c300 dead000000000003 ffff888100042b40
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff88802bb36e00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff88802bb36e80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88802bb36f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                    ^
  ffff88802bb36f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  ffff88802bb37000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53265 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 4.14.308 with commit 61e04db3bec87f7dd10074296deb7d083e2ccade
	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 4.19.276 with commit 771e207a839a29ba943e89f473b0fecd16089e2e
	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 5.4.235 with commit f7adb740f97b6fa84e658892dcb08e37a31a4e77
	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 5.10.173 with commit 846bfba34175c23b13cc2023c2d67b96e8c14c43
	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 5.15.100 with commit 701bb3ed5a88a73ebbe1266895bdeff065226dca
	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 6.1.18 with commit 61aeba0e4b4124cfe3c5427feaf29c626dfa89e5
	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 6.2.5 with commit e1b73fe4f4c6bb80755eb4bf4b867a8fd8b1a7fe
	Issue introduced in 2.6.22 with commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 and fixed in 6.3 with commit 1b42b1a36fc946f0d7088425b90d491b4257ca3e

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-2023-53265
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/mtd/ubi/build.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/61e04db3bec87f7dd10074296deb7d083e2ccade
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/771e207a839a29ba943e89f473b0fecd16089e2e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7adb740f97b6fa84e658892dcb08e37a31a4e77
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/846bfba34175c23b13cc2023c2d67b96e8c14c43
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/701bb3ed5a88a73ebbe1266895bdeff065226dca
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61aeba0e4b4124cfe3c5427feaf29c626dfa89e5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1b73fe4f4c6bb80755eb4bf4b867a8fd8b1a7fe
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b42b1a36fc946f0d7088425b90d491b4257ca3e