Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2023-23586: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2023-23586: kernel security update

Severity

5

CVSS

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

Published

02/17/2023

Created

07/05/2023

Added

07/05/2023

Modified

01/30/2025

Description

Due to a vulnerability in the io_uring subsystem, it is possible to leak kernel memory information to the user process. timens_install calls current_is_single_threaded to determine if the current process is single-threaded, but this call does not consider io_uring's io_worker threads, thus it is possible to insert a time namespace's vvar page to process's memory space via a page fault. When this time namespace is destroyed, the vvar page is also freed, but not removed from the process' memory, and a next page allocated by the kernel will be still available from the user-space process and can leak memory contents via this (read-only) use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past version 5.10.161 or commit  788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/io_uring

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-bpftool
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2023-23586
• CVE - 2023-23586
• EulerOS-SA-2023-2296