CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53083
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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:
nfsd: don't replace page in rq_pages if it's a continuation of last page
The splice read calls nfsd_splice_actor to put the pages containing file
data into the svc_rqst->rq_pages array. It's possible however to get a
splice result that only has a partial page at the end, if (e.g.) the
filesystem hands back a short read that doesn't cover the whole page.
nfsd_splice_actor will plop the partial page into its rq_pages array and
return. Then later, when nfsd_splice_actor is called again, the
remainder of the page may end up being filled out. At this point,
nfsd_splice_actor will put the page into the array _again_ corrupting
the reply. If this is done enough times, rq_next_page will overrun the
array and corrupt the trailing fields -- the rq_respages and
rq_next_page pointers themselves.
If we've already added the page to the array in the last pass, don't add
it to the array a second time when dealing with a splice continuation.
This was originally handled properly in nfsd_splice_actor, but commit
91e23b1c3982 ("NFSD: Clean up nfsd_splice_actor()") removed the check
for it.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 6.1.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.9)
• linux linux kernel 6.3
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0101067f376eb7b9afd00279270f25d5111a091d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12eca509234acb6b666802edf77408bb70d7bfca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27c934dd8832dd40fd34776f916dc201e18b319b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51ddb84baff6f09ad62b5999ece3ec172e4e3568 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8235cd619db6e67f1d7d26c55f1f3e4e575c947d Patch