CVE-2023-52872

Summary

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

tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections

gsm_cleanup_mux() cleans up the gsm by closing all DLCIs, stopping all timers, removing the virtual tty devices and clearing the data queues. This procedure, however, may cause subsequent changes of the virtual modem status lines of a DLCI. More data is being added the outgoing data queue and the deleted kick timer is restarted to handle this. At this point many resources have already been removed by the cleanup procedure. Thus, a kernel panic occurs.

Fix this by proving in gsm_modem_update() that the cleanup procedure has not been started and the mux is still alive.

Note that writing to a virtual tty is already protected by checks against the DLCI specific connection state.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxdd37f657387853623f20c1b2482afbb9cd8ece33 < 81a4dd5e6c78f5d8952fa8c9d36565db1fe01444affected
LinuxLinuxc568f7086c6e771c77aad13d727c70ef70e07243 < df6cfab66ff2a44bd23ad5dd5309cb3421bb6593affected
LinuxLinuxc568f7086c6e771c77aad13d727c70ef70e07243 < 19d34b73234af542cc8a218cf398dee73cdb1890affected
LinuxLinuxc568f7086c6e771c77aad13d727c70ef70e07243 < ce4df90333c4fe65acb8b5089fdfe9b955ce976aaffected
LinuxLinuxc568f7086c6e771c77aad13d727c70ef70e07243 < 3a75b205de43365f80a33b98ec9289785da56243affected
LinuxLinuxd834aba5f30d9a6f98f4ca1eb07e501f1989331caffected
LinuxLinux692e847a8e6607909c4a3f98ab16ccee7849bd11affected
LinuxLinux5.15.61 < 5.15.138affected
LinuxLinux5.18.18 < 5.19affected
LinuxLinux5.19.2 < 5.20affected
LinuxLinux6.0affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.0unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.138 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.62 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.5.11 <= 6.5.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.1 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.7 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

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