CVE-2023-53667 (GCVE-0-2023-53667)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:21 – Updated: 2025-10-07 15:21
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Title
net: cdc_ncm: Deal with too low values of dwNtbOutMaxSize
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: cdc_ncm: Deal with too low values of dwNtbOutMaxSize Currently in cdc_ncm_check_tx_max(), if dwNtbOutMaxSize is lower than the calculated "min" value, but greater than zero, the logic sets tx_max to dwNtbOutMaxSize. This is then used to allocate a new SKB in cdc_ncm_fill_tx_frame() where all the data is handled. For small values of dwNtbOutMaxSize the memory allocated during alloc_skb(dwNtbOutMaxSize, GFP_ATOMIC) will have the same size, due to how size is aligned at alloc time: size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size); size += SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)); Thus we hit the same bug that we tried to squash with commit 2be6d4d16a084 ("net: cdc_ncm: Allow for dwNtbOutMaxSize to be unset or zero") Low values of dwNtbOutMaxSize do not cause an issue presently because at alloc_skb() time more memory (512b) is allocated than required for the SKB headers alone (320b), leaving some space (512b - 320b = 192b) for CDC data (172b). However, if more elements (for example 3 x u64 = [24b]) were added to one of the SKB header structs, say 'struct skb_shared_info', increasing its original size (320b [320b aligned]) to something larger (344b [384b aligned]), then suddenly the CDC data (172b) no longer fits in the spare SKB data area (512b - 384b = 128b). Consequently the SKB bounds checking semantics fails and panics: skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffffffff831f755b len:184 put:172 head:ffff88811f1c6c00 data:ffff88811f1c6c00 tail:0xb8 end:0x80 dev:<NULL> ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:113! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 57 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 5.15.106-syzkaller-00249-g19c0ed55a470 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/14/2023 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work RIP: 0010:skb_panic net/core/skbuff.c:113 [inline] RIP: 0010:skb_over_panic+0x14c/0x150 net/core/skbuff.c:118 [snip] Call Trace: <TASK> skb_put+0x151/0x210 net/core/skbuff.c:2047 skb_put_zero include/linux/skbuff.h:2422 [inline] cdc_ncm_ndp16 drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:1131 [inline] cdc_ncm_fill_tx_frame+0x11ab/0x3da0 drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:1308 cdc_ncm_tx_fixup+0xa3/0x100 Deal with too low values of dwNtbOutMaxSize, clamp it in the range [USB_CDC_NCM_NTB_MIN_OUT_SIZE, CDC_NCM_NTB_MAX_SIZE_TX]. We ensure enough data space is allocated to handle CDC data by making sure dwNtbOutMaxSize is not smaller than USB_CDC_NCM_NTB_MIN_OUT_SIZE.
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Linux Linux Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < 2334ff0b343ba6ba7a6c0586fcc83992bbbc1776 (git)
Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < bf415bfe7573596ac213b4fd1da9e62cfc9a9413 (git)
Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < ff484163dfb61b58f23e4dbd007de1094427669c (git)
Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < 42b78c8cc774b47023d6d16d96d54cc7015e4a07 (git)
Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < 9be921854e983a81a0aeeae5febcd87093086e46 (git)
Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < 6147745d43ff4e0d2c542e5b93e398ef0ee4db00 (git)
Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < 72d0240b0ee4794efc683975c213e4b384fea733 (git)
Affected: 289507d3364f96f4b8814726917d572f71350d87 , < 7e01c7f7046efc2c7c192c3619db43292b98e997 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.317 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.285 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.245 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.181 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.114 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.31 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.5 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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