UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52455

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52455

    Published: 23 Feb 2024Last Modified: 6 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-52455
    Aliases:
    USN-6818-1
    USN-6818-2
    USN-6818-3

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region When the bootloader/firmware doesn't setup the framebuffers, their address and size are 0 in "iommu-addresses" property. If IOVA region is reserved with 0 length, then it ends up corrupting the IOVA rbtree with an entry which has pfn_hi < pfn_lo. If we intend to use display driver in kernel without framebuffer then it's causing the display IOMMU mappings to fail as entire valid IOVA space is reserved when address and length are passed as 0. An ideal solution would be firmware removing the "iommu-addresses" property and corresponding "memory-region" if display is not present. But the kernel should be able to handle this by checking for size of IOVA region and skipping the IOVA reservation if size is 0. Also, add a warning if firmware is requesting 0-length IOVA region reservation.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52455, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98b8a550da83cc392a14298c4b3eaaf0332ae6ad, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e23e283910c9f30248732ae0770bcb0c9438abf, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb57f6705960bebeb832142ce9abf43220c3eab1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52455, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6818-4, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6819-4

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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