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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2023-52767
HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 4:15 p.m.

CVE-2023-52767

2024-05-2116:15:15
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
4
linux
kernel
fix
tls
null deref
vulnerability
encryption
syzkaller
plaintext
ciphertext
sendfile
sk_msg
empty record
buffer
bpf program

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

15.5%

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

tls: fix NULL deref on tls_sw_splice_eof() with empty record

syzkaller discovered that if tls_sw_splice_eof() is executed as part of
sendfile() when the plaintext/ciphertext sk_msg are empty, the send path
gets confused because the empty ciphertext buffer does not have enough
space for the encryption overhead. This causes tls_push_record() to go on
the split = true path (which is only supposed to be used when interacting
with an attached BPF program), and then get further confused and hit the
tls_merge_open_record() path, which then assumes that there must be at
least one populated buffer element, leading to a NULL deref.

It is possible to have empty plaintext/ciphertext buffers if we previously
bailed from tls_sw_sendmsg_locked() via the tls_trim_both_msgs() path.
tls_sw_push_pending_record() already handles this case correctly; let’s do
the same check in tls_sw_splice_eof().

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

15.5%