CVE-2023-52455

Summary

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

iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region

When the bootloader/firmware doesn't setup the framebuffers, their address and size are 0 in "iommu-addresses" property. If IOVA region is reserved with 0 length, then it ends up corrupting the IOVA rbtree with an entry which has pfn_hi < pfn_lo. If we intend to use display driver in kernel without framebuffer then it's causing the display IOMMU mappings to fail as entire valid IOVA space is reserved when address and length are passed as 0. An ideal solution would be firmware removing the "iommu-addresses" property and corresponding "memory-region" if display is not present. But the kernel should be able to handle this by checking for size of IOVA region and skipping the IOVA reservation if size is 0. Also, add a warning if firmware is requesting 0-length IOVA region reservation.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxa5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 < 98b8a550da83cc392a14298c4b3eaaf0332ae6adaffected
LinuxLinuxa5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 < 5e23e283910c9f30248732ae0770bcb0c9438abfaffected
LinuxLinuxa5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 < bb57f6705960bebeb832142ce9abf43220c3eab1affected
LinuxLinux6.3affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.3unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.14 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.7.2 <= 6.7.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.8 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References