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script_cve_id("CVE-2023-53188");
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"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.
- net: openvswitch: fix race on port output assume the following setup on a single machine: 1. An
openvswitch instance with one bridge and default flows 2. two network namespaces server and client 3.
two ovs interfaces server and client on the bridge 4. for each ovs interface a veth pair with a
matching name and 32 rx and tx queues 5. move the ends of the veth pairs to the respective network
namespaces 6. assign ip addresses to each of the veth ends in the namespaces (needs to be the same subnet)
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infinite loop: 1. send a large amount of parallel requests to the http server (around 3000 curls should
work) 2. in parallel delete the network namespace (do not delete interfaces or stop the server, just kill
the namespace) there is a low chance that this will cause the below kernel cpu stuck message. If this does
not happen just retry. Below there is also the output of bpftrace for the functions mentioned in the
output. The series of events happening here is: 1. the network namespace is deleted calling
`unregister_netdevice_many_notify` somewhere in the process 2. this sets first `NETREG_UNREGISTERING` on
both ends of the veth and then runs `synchronize_net` 3. it then calls `call_netdevice_notifiers` with
`NETDEV_UNREGISTER` 4. this is then handled by `dp_device_event` which calls `ovs_netdev_detach_dev` (if a
vport is found, which is the case for the veth interface attached to ovs) 5. this removes the rx_handlers
of the device but does not prevent packages to be sent to the device 6. `dp_device_event` then queues the
vport deletion to work in background as a ovs_lock is needed that we do not hold in the unregistration
path 7. `unregister_netdevice_many_notify` continues to call `netdev_unregister_kobject` which sets
`real_num_tx_queues` to 0 8. port deletion continues (but details are not relevant for this issue) 9. at
some future point the background task deletes the vport If after 7. but before 9. a packet is send to the
ovs vport (which is not deleted at this point in time) which forwards it to the `dev_queue_xmit` flow even
though the device is unregistering. In `skb_tx_hash` (which is called in the `dev_queue_xmit`) path there
is a while loop (if the packet has a rx_queue recorded) that is infinite if `dev->real_num_tx_queues` is
zero. To prevent this from happening we update `do_output` to handle devices without carrier the same as
if the device is not found (which would be the code path after 9. is done). Additionally we now produce a
warning in `skb_tx_hash` if we will hit the infinite loop. bpftrace (first word is function name):
__dev_queue_xmit server: real_num_tx_queues: 1, cpu: 2, pid: 28024, tid: 28024, skb_addr:
0xffff9edb6f207000, reg_state: 1 netdev_core_pick_tx server: addr: 0xffff9f0a46d4a000 real_num_tx_queues:
1, cpu: 2, pid: 28024, tid: 28024, skb_addr: 0xffff9edb6f207000, reg_state: 1 dp_device_event server:
real_num_tx_queues: 1 cpu 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024, event 2, reg_state: 1 synchronize_rcu_expedited: cpu
9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024 synchronize_rcu_expedited: cpu 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024
synchronize_rcu_expedited: cpu 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024 synchronize_rcu_expedited: cpu 9, pid: 21024,
tid: 21024 dp_device_event server: real_num_tx_queues: 1 cpu 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024, event 6,
reg_state: 2 ovs_netdev_detach_dev server: real_num_tx_queues: 1 cpu 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024, reg_state:
2 netdev_rx_handler_unregister server: real_num_tx_queues: 1, cpu: 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024, reg_state: 2
synchronize_rcu_expedited: cpu 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024 netdev_rx_handler_unregister ret server:
real_num_tx_queues: 1, cpu: 9, pid: 21024, tid: 21024, reg_state: 2 dp_ ---truncated--- (CVE-2023-53188)
Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
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]
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]
},
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"package_manager": "rpm-list",
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{
"release": "7",
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{"reference": "bpftool"},
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{"reference": "kernel-devel"},
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},
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"package_manager": "rpm-list",
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{
"release": "7",
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{"reference": "bpftool"},
{"reference": "kernel"},
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{"reference": "kernel-bootwrapper"},
{"reference": "kernel-debug"},
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{"reference": "kernel-devel"},
{"reference": "kernel-doc"},
{"reference": "kernel-headers"},
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{"reference": "kernel-tools-libs"},
{"reference": "kernel-tools-libs-devel"},
{"reference": "perf"},
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]
}
]
}
};
var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);
if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}
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