Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52894): linux vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52894): linux vulnerability

Severity

5

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

08/21/2024

Created

11/21/2024

Added

11/19/2024

Modified

02/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: f_ncm: fix potential NULL ptr deref in ncm_bitrate() In Google internal bug 265639009 we've received an (as yet) unreproducible crash report from an aarch64 GKI 5.10.149-android13 running device. AFAICT the source code is at: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/refs/tags/ASB-2022-12-05_13-5.10 The call stack is: ncm_close() -> ncm_notify() -> ncm_do_notify() with the crash at: ncm_do_notify+0x98/0x270 Code: 79000d0b b9000a6c f940012a f9400269 (b9405d4b) Which I believe disassembles to (I don't know ARM assembly, but it looks sane enough to me...): // halfword (16-bit) store presumably to event->wLength (at offset 6 of struct usb_cdc_notification) 0B 0D 00 79strh w11, [x8, #6] // word (32-bit) store presumably to req->Length (at offset 8 of struct usb_request) 6C 0A 00 B9strw12, [x19, #8] // x10 (NULL) was read here from offset 0 of valid pointer x9 // IMHO we're reading 'cdev->gadget' and getting NULL // gadget is indeed at offset 0 of struct usb_composite_dev 2A 01 40 F9ldrx10, [x9] // loading req->buf pointer, which is at offset 0 of struct usb_request 69 02 40 F9ldrx9, [x19] // x10 is null, crash, appears to be attempt to read cdev->gadget->max_speed 4B 5D 40 B9ldrw11, [x10, #0x5c] which seems to line up with ncm_do_notify() case NCM_NOTIFY_SPEED code fragment: event->wLength = cpu_to_le16(8); req->length = NCM_STATUS_BYTECOUNT; /* SPEED_CHANGE data is up/down speeds in bits/sec */ data = req->buf + sizeof *event; data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget)); My analysis of registers and NULL ptr deref crash offset (Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000000000005c) heavily suggests that the crash is due to 'cdev->gadget' being NULL when executing: data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget)); which calls: ncm_bitrate(NULL) which then calls: gadget_is_superspeed(NULL) which reads ((struct usb_gadget *)NULL)->max_speed and hits a panic. AFAICT, if I'm counting right, the offset of max_speed is indeed 0x5C. (remember there's a GKI KABI reservation of 16 bytes in struct work_struct) It's not at all clear to me how this is all supposed to work... but returning 0 seems much better than panic-ing...

Solution(s)

• ubuntu-upgrade-linux
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws-5-4
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws-fips
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-aws-hwe
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-4-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-5-4
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-fde
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-fde-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-azure-fips
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-bluefield
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-fips
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp-4-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp-5-4
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gcp-fips
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gke
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gkeop
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-gkeop-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-hwe
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-hwe-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-hwe-5-4
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-ibm
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-ibm-5-4
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iot-realtime
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iotg
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-intel-iotg-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-iot
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-kvm
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-lowlatency
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-lowlatency-hwe-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-nvidia
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-oracle-5-4
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-raspi
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-raspi-5-4
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-realtime
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-riscv-5-15
• ubuntu-upgrade-linux-xilinx-zynqmp

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2023-52894
• CVE - 2023-52894
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/c6ec929595c7443250b2a4faea988c62019d5cd2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09e4507ec8ef2d44da6ba4092b8ee2d81f216497
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63d161f29cd39c050e8873aa36e0c9fc013bb763
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a21da7f7aae618c785f7e4a275d43c06dc8412b6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a69c8dfb85b44be9cc223be07d35cc3a9baefbea
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6ec929595c7443250b2a4faea988c62019d5cd2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e92c70059178da751e5af7de02384b7dfadb5ec7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fef6b29671b66dfb71f17e337c1ad14b5a2cedae
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52894

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