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    Home»Security»Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)»CVE-2023-53138 – Cisco CAIF Use-After-Free Vulnerability

    CVE-2023-53138 – Cisco CAIF Use-After-Free Vulnerability

    May 2, 2025

    CVE ID : CVE-2023-53138

    Published : May 2, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 34 minutes ago

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

    net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()

    syzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1]. This
    causes a stack trace like below:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138
    Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214

    CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0
    Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
    Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
    Call Trace:

    __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
    dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
    print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313
    print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]
    kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491
    cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138
    notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87
    call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945
    call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]
    call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]
    netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline]
    netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0 net/core/dev.c:10341
    default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334
    ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:167
    cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594
    process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
    worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
    kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
    ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302

    When unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify()
    sets the device’s reg_state to NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers
    with NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list.

    Later on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo().
    netdev_run_todo() waits devices’ reference count become 1 while
    rebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.

    When cfusbl_device_notify() is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple
    times, the parent device might be freed. This could cause UAF.
    Processing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of
    reference count for the module.

    This patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER
    notification.

    Severity: 0.0 | NA

    Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more…

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