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high 7.8

CVE-2023-52603 json

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot

published 2024-03-06 2 y ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2023-57227

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot

Syzkaller reported the following issue:

oop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 32768

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971:9 index -2 is out of range for type 'struct dtslot [128]' CPU: 0 PID: 3613 Comm: syz-executor270 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:151 [inline] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xdb/0x130 lib/ubsan.c:283 dtSplitRoot+0x8d8/0x1900 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971 dtSplitUp fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:985 [inline] dtInsert+0x1189/0x6b80 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:863 jfs_mkdir+0x757/0xb00 fs/jfs/namei.c:270 vfs_mkdir+0x3b3/0x590 fs/namei.c:4013 do_mkdirat+0x279/0x550 fs/namei.c:4038 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4053 [inline] __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4051 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x85/0x90 fs/namei.c:4051 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7fcdc0113fd9 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffeb8bc67d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fcdc0113fd9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000340 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007fcdc00d37a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fcdc00d37a0 R10: 00005555559a72c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000f8008000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00083878000000f8 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK>

The issue is caused when the value of fsi becomes less than -1. The check to break the loop when fsi value becomes -1 is present but syzbot was able to produce value less than -1 which cause the error. This patch simply add the change for the values less than 0.

The patch is tested via syzbot.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.77, 6.6.16, 6.7.4, 6.8
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.82-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.7.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52603

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-177.197
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-105.115
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1123.133
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1060.66
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1127.136
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1058.66
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1057.62
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1070.75

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52603

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1
  • kernel-syms-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1
  • kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.59.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1490-1SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-52603 updated cvss 6.8

kernel: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-25-226-15 updated

Siemens SINEC OS

  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM RST2428P (6GK6242-6PA00) Siemens SCALANCE XC-300/XR-300/XC-400/XR-500WG/XR-500 family Siemens SCALANCE XCM-/XRM-/XCH-/XRH-300 family
    not affected

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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