CVE-2023-52676

bpf: Guard stack limits against 32bit overflow

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.8
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Guard stack limits against 32bit overflow This patch promotes the arithmetic around checking stack bounds to be done in the 64-bit domain, instead of the current 32bit. The arithmetic implies adding together a 64-bit register with a int offset. The register was checked to be below 1<<29 when it was variable, but not when it was fixed. The offset either comes from an instruction (in which case it is 16 bit), from another register (in which case the caller checked it to be below 1<<29 [1]), or from the size of an argument to a kfunc (in which case it can be a u32 [2]). Between the register being inconsistently checked to be below 1<<29, and the offset being up to an u32, it appears that we were open to overflowing the `int`s which were currently used for arithmetic. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/815fb87b753055df2d9e50f6cd80eb10235fe3e9/kernel/bpf/verifier.c#L7494-L7498 [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/815fb87b753055df2d9e50f6cd80eb10235fe3e9/kernel/bpf/verifier.c#L11904

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f3c4b01689d392373301e6e60d1b02c5b4020afc < ad1754f86a87fe74912fb542b23ff24ada4e3307 ; affected 01f810ace9ed37255f27608a0864abebccf0aab3 < 4ba97610399e83d29d1086a0827d33172539b49b ; affected 01f810ace9ed37255f27608a0864abebccf0aab3 < e160b2ed94a20fa940369ebd914277f88005e70d ; affected 01f810ace9ed37255f27608a0864abebccf0aab3 < ad140fc856f0b1d5e2215bcb6d0cc247a86805a2 ; affected 01f810ace9ed37255f27608a0864abebccf0aab3 < e5ad9ecb84405637df82732ee02ad741a5f782a6 ; affected 01f810ace9ed37255f27608a0864abebccf0aab3 < 1d38a9ee81570c4bd61f557832dead4d6f816760
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.12 ; unaffected 0 < 5.12 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.14 ≤ 6.6.*

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD