CVE-2023-53479

Summary

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

cxl/acpi: Fix a use-after-free in cxl_parse_cfmws()

KASAN and KFENCE detected an user-after-free in the CXL driver. This happens in the cxl_decoder_add() fail path. KASAN prints the following error:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cxl_parse_cfmws (drivers/cxl/acpi.c:299)

This happens in cxl_parse_cfmws(), where put_device() is called, releasing cxld, which is accessed later.

Use the local variables in the dev_err() instead of pointing to the released memory. Since the dev_err() is printing a resource, change the open coded print format to use the %pr format specifier.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxe50fe01e1f2a4aba2275edee7d5c77ac87674ddb < 748fadc08bcbdaf573b34d9784bb3dbd87441dbfaffected
LinuxLinuxe50fe01e1f2a4aba2275edee7d5c77ac87674ddb < 316db489647b8ddc381682597e89787eac61a278affected
LinuxLinuxe50fe01e1f2a4aba2275edee7d5c77ac87674ddb < 4cf67d3cc9994a59cf77bb9c0ccf9007fe916afeaffected
LinuxLinux6.0affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.0unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.43 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.4.8 <= 6.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.5 <= *unaffected

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