CVE-2023-54046

Summary

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

crypto: essiv - Handle EBUSY correctly

As it is essiv only handles the special return value of EINPROGERSS, which means that in all other cases it will free data related to the request.

However, as the caller of essiv may specify MAY_BACKLOG, we also need to expect EBUSY and treat it in the same way. Otherwise backlogged requests will trigger a use-after-free.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxbe1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 < c61e7d182ee3f3f5ecf18a2964e303d49c539b52affected
LinuxLinuxbe1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 < 796e02cca30a67322161f0745e5ce994bbe75605affected
LinuxLinuxbe1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 < 840a1d3b77c1b062bd62b4733969a5b1efc274ceaffected
LinuxLinuxbe1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 < a006aa3eedb8bfd6fe317c3cfe9c86ffe76b2385affected
LinuxLinuxbe1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 < 69c67d451fc19d88e54f7d97e8e7c093e08357e1affected
LinuxLinuxbe1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 < b5a772adf45a32c68bef28e60621f12617161556affected
LinuxLinux5.4affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.4unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.235 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.173 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.99 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.16 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.2.3 <= 6.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.3 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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