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CVE-2023-52505

2024-03-0200:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
2
linux kernel
vulnerability
phy: lynx-28g
shared registers
protocol converter configuration
pcc registers
corruption
spinlock
phy_ops

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy:
lynx-28g: serialize concurrent phy_set_mode_ext() calls to shared registers
The protocol converter configuration registers PCC8, PCCC, PCCD
(implemented by the driver), as well as others, control protocol converters
from multiple lanes (each represented as a different struct phy). So, if
there are simultaneous calls to phy_set_mode_ext() to lanes sharing the
same PCC register (either for the “old” or for the “new” protocol),
corruption of the values programmed to hardware is possible, because
lynx_28g_rmw() has no locking. Add a spinlock in the struct lynx_28g_priv
shared by all lanes, and take the global spinlock from the phy_ops ::
set_mode() implementation. There are no other callers which modify PCC
registers.

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%