CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-53543

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel related to attribute validation in the vdpa_nl_policy structure. The lack of proper policy for the max vqp attribute may lead to illegal nlattr pointers, which could result in out-of-bounds reads.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could lead to serious security issues, including unauthorized memory access, which may threaten the integrity of the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to patch this vulnerability and avoid potential risks associated with out-of-bounds reads.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa: Add max vqp attr to vdpa_nl_policy for nlattr length check The vdpa_nl_policy structure is used to validate the nlattr when parsing the incoming nlmsg. It will ensure the attribute being described produces a valid nlattr pointer in info->attrs before entering into each handler in vdpa_nl_ops. That is to say, the missing part in vdpa_nl_policy may lead to illegal nlattr after parsing, which could lead to OOB read just like CVE-2023-3773. This patch adds the missing nla_policy for vdpa max vqp attr to avoid such bugs.

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