CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-53372

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

28th percentile - higher than 28% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's SCTP module, a potential overflow was found when processing ifwdtsn packets. During iteration over skipped chunks, there was no check whether remaining data was sufficient for safe structure dereference, which could lead to out-of-bounds read.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system crash or gain unauthorized access to kernel memory, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that adds proper boundary checks before dereferencing the structure.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip Currently, when traversing ifwdtsn skips with _sctp_walk_ifwdtsn, it only checks the pos against the end of the chunk. However, the data left for the last pos may be < sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip), and dereference it as struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip may cause coverflow. This patch fixes it by checking the pos against "the end of the chunk - sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip)" in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip, similar to sctp_fwdtsn_skip.

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