FKIE_CVE-2023-52576

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-03-02 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:43
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm, kexec, ima: Use memblock_free_late() from ima_free_kexec_buffer() The code calling ima_free_kexec_buffer() runs long after the memblock allocator has already been torn down, potentially resulting in a use after free in memblock_isolate_range(). With KASAN or KFENCE, this use after free will result in a BUG from the idle task, and a subsequent kernel panic. Switch ima_free_kexec_buffer() over to memblock_free_late() to avoid that bug.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34cf99c250d5cd2530b93a57b0de31d3aaf8685bPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2dfbc0e3b7a04c2d941421a958dc31c897fb204Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef16bfdb212da60f5144689f2967fb25b051a2bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34cf99c250d5cd2530b93a57b0de31d3aaf8685bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2dfbc0e3b7a04c2d941421a958dc31c897fb204Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef16bfdb212da60f5144689f2967fb25b051a2bPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.6
linux linux_kernel 6.6
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