CVE-2023-0459

Summary

CVECVE-2023-0459
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-05-25 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-06-06 13:47:00 UTC
DescriptionCopy_from_user on 64-bit versions of the Linux kernel does not implement the __uaccess_begin_nospec allowing a user to bypass the "access_ok" check and pass a kernel pointer to copy_from_user(). This would allow an attacker to leak information. We recommend upgrading beyond commit 74e19ef0ff8061ef55957c3abd71614ef0f42f47

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-763

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
x86: get rid of small constant size cases in raw_copy_{to,from}_user() · torvalds/linux@4b842e4 · GitHub MISC github.com
uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user() · torvalds/linux@74e19ef · GitHub MISC github.com
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)
  • 183030 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2023-0459)
  • 199342 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6080-1)
  • 199343 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6079-1)
  • 199346 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) Vulnerabilities (USN-6085-1)
  • 199351 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6090-1)
  • 199353 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6091-1)
  • 199354 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6096-1)
  • 199355 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6094-1)
  • 199368 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) Vulnerabilities (USN-6109-1)
  • 199376 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Oracle) Vulnerabilities (USN-6118-1)
  • 199384 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6132-1)
  • 199385 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-6134-1)
  • 199389 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-6133-1)
  • 199423 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6174-1)
  • 199465 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Xilinx ZynqMP) Vulnerabilities (USN-6222-1)
  • 199504 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-6092-1)
  • 199512 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6084-1)
  • 199521 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6235-1)
  • 199569 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6095-1)
  • 199589 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6081-1)
  • 199614 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (IoT) Vulnerabilities (USN-6256-1)
  • 355199 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-070
  • 378710 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0079)
  • 378889 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2023:0036)
  • 379043 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0136)
  • 673232 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2357)
  • 673272 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2584)
  • 673393 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2647)
  • 674113 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2689)
  • 754275 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3309-1)
  • 754281 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3349-1)
  • 906958 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (26951-1)
  • 907031 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (26953-1)
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