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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-52770

medium Nessus Plugin ID 227361

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: f2fs: split initial and dynamic conditions for extent_cache Let's allocate the extent_cache tree without dynamic conditions to avoid a missing condition causing a panic as below. # create a file w/ a compressed flag # disable the compression # panic while updating extent_cache F2FS-fs (dm-64): Swapfile: last extent is not aligned to section F2FS- fs (dm-64): Swapfile (3) is not align to section: 1) creat(), 2) ioctl(F2FS_IOC_SET_PIN_FILE), 3) fallocate(2097152 * N) Adding 124996k swap on ./swap-file. Priority:0 extents:2 across:17179494468k ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_read_write out/common/include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr- deref in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire out/common/include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:705 [inline] BUG:
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in queued_write_lock out/common/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h:92 [inline] BUG:
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __raw_write_lock out/common/include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:211 [inline] BUG:
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_write_lock+0x5a/0x110 out/common/kernel/locking/spinlock.c:295 Write of size 4 at addr 0000000000000030 by task syz-executor154/3327 CPU: 0 PID: 3327 Comm: syz-executor154 Tainted: G O 5.10.185 #1 Hardware name: emulation qemu-x86/qemu-x86, BIOS 2023.01-21885-gb3cc1cd24d 01/01/2023 Call Trace: __dump_stack out/common/lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x17e/0x1c4 out/common/lib/dump_stack.c:118 __kasan_report+0x16c/0x260 out/common/mm/kasan/report.c:415 kasan_report+0x51/0x70 out/common/mm/kasan/report.c:428 kasan_check_range+0x2f3/0x340 out/common/mm/kasan/generic.c:186 __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 out/common/mm/kasan/shadow.c:37 instrument_atomic_read_write out/common/include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline] atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire out/common/include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:705 [inline] queued_write_lock out/common/include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h:92 [inline] __raw_write_lock out/common/include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:211 [inline] _raw_write_lock+0x5a/0x110 out/common/kernel/locking/spinlock.c:295 __drop_extent_tree+0xdf/0x2f0 out/common/fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1155 f2fs_drop_extent_tree+0x17/0x30 out/common/fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1172 f2fs_insert_range out/common/fs/f2fs/file.c:1600 [inline] f2fs_fallocate+0x19fd/0x1f40 out/common/fs/f2fs/file.c:1764 vfs_fallocate+0x514/0x9b0 out/common/fs/open.c:310 ksys_fallocate out/common/fs/open.c:333 [inline] __do_sys_fallocate out/common/fs/open.c:341 [inline] __se_sys_fallocate out/common/fs/open.c:339 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fallocate+0xb8/0x100 out/common/fs/open.c:339 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x50 out/common/arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 (CVE-2023-52770)

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: 227361

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2023_52770.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-2023-52770

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: 5/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52770