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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-52484

medium Nessus Plugin ID 227075

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix soft lockup triggered by arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range When running an SVA case, the following soft lockup is triggered: -------------------------------------------------------------------- watchdog: BUG: soft lockup
 - CPU#244 stuck for 26s! pstate: 83400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc :
 arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50 lr : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x150/0xa50 sp : ffff8000d83ef290 x29: ffff8000d83ef290 x28: 000000003b9aca00 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff8000d83ef3c0 x25:
 da86c0812194a0e8 x24: 0000000000000000 x23: 0000000000000040 x22: ffff8000d83ef340 x21: ffff0000c63980c0 x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0000c6398080 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16:
 0000000000000000 x15: ffff3000b4a3bbb0 x14: ffff3000b4a30888 x13: ffff3000b4a3cf60 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc08120e4d6bc x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 :
 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000048cfa x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 000000000000000a x2 : 0000000080000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001 Call trace:
 arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50 __arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range+0x118/0x254 arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range_asid+0x6c/0x130 arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range+0xa0/0xa4
 __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end+0x88/0x120 unmap_vmas+0x194/0x1e0 unmap_region+0xb4/0x144 do_mas_align_munmap+0x290/0x490 do_mas_munmap+0xbc/0x124 __vm_munmap+0xa8/0x19c
 __arm64_sys_munmap+0x28/0x50 invoke_syscall+0x78/0x11c el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x1c0 do_el0_svc+0x34/0x60 el0_svc+0x2c/0xd4 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x140 el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that since 6.6-rc1 the arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range above is renamed to arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs, yet the problem remains. The commit 06ff87bae8d3 (arm64: mm: remove unused functions and variable protoypes) fixed a similar lockup on the CPU MMU side. Yet, it can occur to SMMU too, since arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs() is called typically next to MMU tlb flush function, e.g.
 tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly { tlb_flush { __flush_tlb_range { // check MAX_TLBI_OPS } } mmu_notifier_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs { arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs { // does not check MAX_TLBI_OPS } } } Clone a CMDQ_MAX_TLBI_OPS from the MAX_TLBI_OPS in tlbflush.h, since in an SVA case SMMU uses the CPU page table, so it makes sense to align with the tlbflush code. Then, replace per- page TLBI commands with a single per-asid TLBI command, if the request size hits this threshold.
 (CVE-2023-52484)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 227075

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2023_52484.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 3/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52484

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52484