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Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 01:14:34 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Tobias Holl <tobias@...ll.xyz>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Linux kernel io_uring out-of-bounds access to physical memory
On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 04:01:59PM +0200, Tobias Holl wrote:
> a bug in the fixed buffer registration code for io_uring
> (io_sqe_buffer_register in io_uring/rsrc.c) allows out-of-bounds access
> to physical memory beyond the end of the buffer. This can be used to
> achieve full local privilege escalation.
>
> The vulnerable code landed in 6.3-rc1 with commit 57bebf807e2a
> ("io_uring/rsrc: optimise registered huge pages").
>
> A fix has been committed upstream for 6.4-rc1 in commit 776617db78c6
> ("io_uring/rsrc: check for nonconsecutive pages"). The fix has also
> been staged for 6.3.2.
>
> CVE assignment for this issue is pending.
This is now CVE-2023-2598.
Alexander
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