CVE-2023-52486CWE-667

CVE-2023-52486

High · published March 11, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

drm: Don't unref the same fb many times by mistake due to deadlock handling

If we get a deadlock after the fb lookup in drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl()

we proceed to unref the fb and then retry the whole thing from the top.

But we forget to reset the fb pointer back to NULL, and so if we then

get another error during the retry, before the fb lookup, we proceed

the unref the same fb again without having gotten another reference.

The end result is that the fb will (eventually) end up being freed

while it's still in use.

Reset fb to NULL once we've unreffed it to avoid doing it again

until we've done another fb lookup.

This turned out to be pretty easy to hit on a DG2 when doing async

flips (and CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y). The first symptom I

saw that drm_closefb() simply got stuck in a busy loop while walking

the framebuffer list. Fortunately I was able to convince it to oops

instead, and from there it was easier to track down the culprit.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00230 · 13.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-667 · Improper Locking
Published
2024-03-11T22:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 4.19.3074.19.307
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2695.4.269
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2105.10.210
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1495.15.149
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.766.1.76
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.156.6.15
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.7.36.7.3
References (18)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/376e21a9e4c2c63ee5d8d3aa74be5082c3882229 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f2e79cf9f4f47cc9dea9cebdf58d9f7b5695e0 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dd334a8245011ace45e53298175c7b659edb3e7 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4af63da9d94986c529d74499fdfe44289acd551 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfd0feb1b109cb63b87fdcd00122603787c75a1a · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb4daf271302d71a6b9a7c01bd0b6d76febd8f0c · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7afdf360f4ac142832b098b4de974e867cc063c · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f55261469be87c55df13db76dc945f6bcd825105 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/376e21a9e4c2c63ee5d8d3aa74be5082c3882229 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f2e79cf9f4f47cc9dea9cebdf58d9f7b5695e0 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dd334a8245011ace45e53298175c7b659edb3e7 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4af63da9d94986c529d74499fdfe44289acd551 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfd0feb1b109cb63b87fdcd00122603787c75a1a · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb4daf271302d71a6b9a7c01bd0b6d76febd8f0c · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7afdf360f4ac142832b098b4de974e867cc063c · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f55261469be87c55df13db76dc945f6bcd825105 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 FEB 15:52Z
    drm: Don't unref the same fb many times by mistake due to deadlock handling
    cvelistv5