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HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 4:15 p.m.

CVE-2023-52767

2024-05-2116:15:00
Google
osv.dev
4
linux kernel
tls vulnerability
sendfile
syzkaller discovered
encryption
null deref

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

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().

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High