CVE-2023-0045

Summary

CVECVE-2023-0045
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-25 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-11 19:53:00 UTC
DescriptionThe current implementation of the prctl syscall does not issue an IBPB immediately during the syscall. The ib_prctl_set  function updates the Thread Information Flags (TIFs) for the task and updates the SPEC_CTRL MSR on the function __speculation_ctrl_update, but the IBPB is only issued on the next schedule, when the TIF bits are checked. This leaves the victim vulnerable to values already injected on the BTB, prior to the prctl syscall.  The patch that added the support for the conditional mitigation via prctl (ib_prctl_set) dates back to the kernel 4.9.176. We recommend upgrading past commit a664ec9158eeddd75121d39c9a0758016097fa96

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-610

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Hardware Netapp H300s - All All All
Operating System Netapp H300s Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp H410c - All All All
Operating System Netapp H410c Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp H410s - All All All
Operating System Netapp H410s Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp H500s - All All All
Operating System Netapp H500s Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp H700s - All All All
Operating System Netapp H700s Firmware - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Linux Kernel: Bypassing Spectre-BTI User Space Mitigations · Advisory · google/security-research · GitHub MISC github.com
403 Forbidden MISC security.netapp.com
kernel/git/tip/tip.git - Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the repository. MISC git.kernel.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3403-1] linux security update MISC lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3404-1] linux-5.10 security update MISC lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181765 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3404-1)
  • 181768 Debian Security Update for linux (DLA 3403-1)
  • 183815 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2023-0045)
  • 199207 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5914-1)
  • 199208 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5915-1)
  • 199210 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5913-1)
  • 199212 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5917-1)
  • 199218 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-5927-1)
  • 199224 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) Vulnerabilities (USN-5934-1)
  • 199226 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GCP) Vulnerabilities (USN-5939-1)
  • 199230 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) Vulnerabilities (USN-5940-1)
  • 199239 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (IBM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5951-1)
  • 199251 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5970-1)
  • 199258 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (HWE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5979-1)
  • 199260 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5982-1)
  • 199261 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5984-1)
  • 199265 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5987-1)
  • 199267 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GCP) Vulnerabilities (USN-5991-1)
  • 199276 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (BlueField) Vulnerabilities (USN-6000-1)
  • 199280 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-6004-1)
  • 199300 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) Vulnerabilities (USN-6030-1)
  • 199502 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5975-1)
  • 199541 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-5924-1)
  • 199555 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5926-1)
  • 199570 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5981-1)
  • 199587 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GCP) Vulnerabilities (USN-6009-1)
  • 199590 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (AWS) Vulnerabilities (USN-5884-1)
  • 354775 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-042
  • 378701 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2023:0030)
  • 378710 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0079)
  • 379043 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0136)
  • 673005 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1873)
  • 673017 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1978)
  • 673047 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1956)
  • 673121 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2296)
  • 673157 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2272)
  • 753743 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0618-1)
  • 753745 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0634-1)
  • 753807 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0768-1)
  • 753808 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0778-1)
  • 753810 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0780-1)
  • 753832 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0852-1)
  • 755842 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the linux kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0774-1)
  • 755851 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the linux kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2646-1)
  • 755900 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux-RT Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0488-1)
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