CVE-2023-53026

Technical Description

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

RDMA/core: Fix ib block iterator counter overflow

When registering a new DMA MR after selecting the best aligned page size

for it, we iterate over the given sglist to split each entry to smaller,

aligned to the selected page size, DMA blocks.

In given circumstances where the sg entry and page size fit certain

sizes and the sg entry is not aligned to the selected page size, the

total size of the aligned pages we need to cover the sg entry is >= 4GB.

Under this circumstances, while iterating page aligned blocks, the

counter responsible for counting how much we advanced from the start of

the sg entry is overflowed because its type is u32 and we pass 4GB in

size. This can lead to an infinite loop inside the iterator function

because the overflow prevents the counter to be larger

than the size of the sg entry.

Fix the presented problem by changing the advancement condition to

eliminate overflow.

Backtrace:

[ 192.37432

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

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