CVE-2023-53852

Summary

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

nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_secret_store

Free dhchap_secret in nvme_ctrl_dhchap_secret_store() before we return fix following kmemleack:-

unreferenced object 0xffff8886376ea800 (size 64): comm "check", pid 22048, jiffies 4344316705 (age 92.199s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 44 48 48 43 2d 31 3a 30 30 3a 6e 78 72 35 4b 67 DHHC-1:00:nxr5Kg 75 58 34 75 6f 41 78 73 4a 61 34 63 2f 68 75 4c uX4uoAxsJa4c/huL backtrace: [<0000000030ce5d4b>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x130 [<000000009be1cdc1>] nvme_ctrl_dhchap_secret_store+0x8f/0x160 [nvme_core] [<00000000ac06c96a>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12b/0x1c0 [<00000000437e7ced>] vfs_write+0x2ba/0x3c0 [<00000000f9491baf>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<000000001c46513d>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000ecf348fe>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc unreferenced object 0xffff8886376eaf00 (size 64): comm "check", pid 22048, jiffies 4344316736 (age 92.168s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 44 48 48 43 2d 31 3a 30 30 3a 6e 78 72 35 4b 67 DHHC-1:00:nxr5Kg 75 58 34 75 6f 41 78 73 4a 61 34 63 2f 68 75 4c uX4uoAxsJa4c/huL backtrace: [<0000000030ce5d4b>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x130 [<000000009be1cdc1>] nvme_ctrl_dhchap_secret_store+0x8f/0x160 [nvme_core] [<00000000ac06c96a>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12b/0x1c0 [<00000000437e7ced>] vfs_write+0x2ba/0x3c0 [<00000000f9491baf>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<000000001c46513d>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000ecf348fe>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxf50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < 2e9b141307554521d60fecf6bf1d2edc8dd0181daffected
LinuxLinuxf50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < c41ac086d2abaf7527a5685f9c0a1c209ab7e0aaaffected
LinuxLinuxf50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < 6a5eda5017959541ab82c5d56bcf784b8294e298affected
LinuxLinuxf50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea < a836ca33c5b07d34dd5347af9f64d25651d12674affected
LinuxLinux6.0affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.0unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.39 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.3.13 <= 6.3.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.4.4 <= 6.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.5 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References