linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53513: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg

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Message-ID: <2025100130-CVE-2023-53513-4667@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 13:46:05 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53513: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg

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

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

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

nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg

We tested and found an alarm caused by nbd_ioctl arg without verification.
The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/buffer.c:1709:35
signed integer overflow:
-9223372036854775808 - 1 cannot be represented in type 'long long int'
CPU: 3 PID: 2523 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.90 #1
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3f0 arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:78
 show_stack+0x28/0x38 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:158
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x170/0x1dc lib/dump_stack.c:118
 ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0xb4 lib/ubsan.c:161
 handle_overflow+0x188/0x1dc lib/ubsan.c:192
 __ubsan_handle_sub_overflow+0x34/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:206
 __block_write_full_page+0x94c/0xa20 fs/buffer.c:1709
 block_write_full_page+0x1f0/0x280 fs/buffer.c:2934
 blkdev_writepage+0x34/0x40 fs/block_dev.c:607
 __writepage+0x68/0xe8 mm/page-writeback.c:2305
 write_cache_pages+0x44c/0xc70 mm/page-writeback.c:2240
 generic_writepages+0xdc/0x148 mm/page-writeback.c:2329
 blkdev_writepages+0x2c/0x38 fs/block_dev.c:2114
 do_writepages+0xd4/0x250 mm/page-writeback.c:2344

The reason for triggering this warning is __block_write_full_page()
-> i_size_read(inode) - 1 overflow.
inode->i_size is assigned in __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_set_size() -> bytesize.
We think it is necessary to limit the size of arg to prevent errors.

Moreover, __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_add_socket(), arg will be cast to int.
Assuming the value of arg is 0x80000000000000001) (on a 64-bit machine),
it will become 1 after the coercion, which will return unexpected results.

Fix it by adding checks to prevent passing in too large numbers.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53513 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 5.15.113 with commit 52851d0c3354b397c11d31dfeb8b2a2fc85a0002
	Fixed in 6.1.30 with commit fab766c8a1aff715bce7075aab40e780266f8e1a
	Fixed in 6.3.4 with commit ffb75ffaa68723276365d0f9d00b03362b750657
	Fixed in 6.4 with commit 55793ea54d77719a071b1ccc05a05056e3b5e009

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-2023-53513
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/block/nbd.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/52851d0c3354b397c11d31dfeb8b2a2fc85a0002
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fab766c8a1aff715bce7075aab40e780266f8e1a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffb75ffaa68723276365d0f9d00b03362b750657
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55793ea54d77719a071b1ccc05a05056e3b5e009