CVE-2023-52909

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52909
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52909.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-52909
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-08-21T06:10:50Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:21Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
nfsd: fix handling of cached open files in nfsd4_open codepath
Details

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

nfsd: fix handling of cached open files in nfsd4_open codepath

Commit fb70bf124b05 ("NFSD: Instantiate a struct file when creating a regular NFSv4 file") added the ability to cache an open fd over a compound. There are a couple of problems with the way this currently works:

It's racy, as a newly-created nfsd_file can end up with its PENDING bit cleared while the nf is hashed, and the nf_file pointer is still zeroed out. Other tasks can find it in this state and they expect to see a valid nf_file, and can oops if nf_file is NULL.

Also, there is no guarantee that we'll end up creating a new nfsd_file if one is already in the hash. If an extant entry is in the hash with a valid nf_file, nfs4_get_vfs_file will clobber its nf_file pointer with the value of op_file and the old nf_file will leak.

Fix both issues by making a new nfsd_file_acquirei_opened variant that takes an optional file pointer. If one is present when this is called, we'll take a new reference to it instead of trying to open the file. If the nfsd_file already has a valid nf_file, we'll just ignore the optional file and pass the nfsd_file back as-is.

Also rework the tracepoints a bit to allow for an "opened" variant and don't try to avoid counting acquisitions in the case where we already have a cached open file.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52909.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c20097329d2c196b818c4666c7820c1378d69d61
Fixed
45c08a752982116f3287afcd1bd9c50f4fab0c28
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
106331a12b0fa5afa6995b1f9ebb03ddcaac6915
Fixed
0b778361998d6c6356b8d2fc7ddf025fb3224654
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
fb70bf124b051d4ded4ce57511dfec6d3ebf2b43
Fixed
973acfdfe90c8a4e58ade97ff0653a498531ff2e
Fixed
0b3a551fa58b4da941efeb209b3770868e2eddd7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52909.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
6.1.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52909.json"