CVE-2023-52767

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.5-6.6.3 - NULL Pointer Dereference in TLS Splice EOF Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix NULL deref on tls_sw_splice_eof() with empty record syzkaller discovered that if tls_sw_splice_eof() is executed as part of sendfile() when the plaintext/ciphertext sk_msg are empty, the send path gets confused because the empty ciphertext buffer does not have enough space for the encryption overhead. This causes tls_push_record() to go on the `split = true` path (which is only supposed to be used when interacting with an attached BPF program), and then get further confused and hit the tls_merge_open_record() path, which then assumes that there must be at least one populated buffer element, leading to a NULL deref. It is possible to have empty plaintext/ciphertext buffers if we previously bailed from tls_sw_sendmsg_locked() via the tls_trim_both_msgs() path. tls_sw_push_pending_record() already handles this case correctly; let's do the same check in tls_sw_splice_eof().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux < 6.5
Linux/Linux 5ad627faed136089e27bcd15e0c33760e575c8c3 - 944900fe2736c07288efe2d9394db4d3ca23f2c9
Linux/Linux 6.5
Linux/Linux 6.6.4 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.7
Linux/Linux df720d288dbb1793e82b6ccbfc670ec871e9def4 - 2214e2bb5489145aba944874d0ee1652a0a63dc8
Linux/Linux df720d288dbb1793e82b6ccbfc670ec871e9def4 - 53f2cb491b500897a619ff6abd72f565933760f0
linux/linux_kernel 6.7 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.5 - 6.6.4
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026