CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-52659
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/mm: Ensure input to pfn_to_kaddr() is treated as a 64-bit type
On 64-bit platforms, the pfn_to_kaddr() macro requires that the input
value is 64 bits in order to ensure that valid address bits don't get
lost when shifting that input by PAGE_SHIFT to calculate the physical
address to provide a virtual address for.
One such example is in pvalidate_pages() (used by SEV-SNP guests), where
the GFN in the struct used for page-state change requests is a 40-bit
bit-field, so attempts to pass this GFN field directly into
pfn_to_kaddr() ends up causing guest crashes when dealing with addresses
above the 1TB range due to the above.
Fix this issue with SEV-SNP guests, as well as any similar cases that
might cause issues in current/future code, by using an inline function,
instead of a macro, so that the input is implicitly cast to the
expected 64-bit input type prior to performing the shift operation.
While it might be argued that the issue is on the caller side, other
archs/macros have taken similar approaches to deal with instances like
this, such as ARM explicitly casting the input to phys_addr_t:
e48866647b48 ("ARM: 8396/1: use phys_addr_t in pfn_to_kaddr()")
A C inline function is even better though.
[ mingo: Refined the changelog some more & added __always_inline. ]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.6.23)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.8.2)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/325956b0173f11e98f90462be4829a8b8b0682ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e1471888a5e6e846e9b4d306e5327db2b58e64e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/814305b5c23cb815ada68d43019f39050472b25f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e5647a723c49d73b9f108a8bb38e8c29d3948ea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/325956b0173f11e98f90462be4829a8b8b0682ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e1471888a5e6e846e9b4d306e5327db2b58e64e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/814305b5c23cb815ada68d43019f39050472b25f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e5647a723c49d73b9f108a8bb38e8c29d3948ea Patch