CVE-2023-52497

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

erofs: fix lz4 inplace decompression

Currently EROFS can map another compressed buffer for inplace

decompression, that was used to handle the cases that some pages of

compressed data are actually not in-place I/O.

However, like most simple LZ77 algorithms, LZ4 expects the compressed

data is arranged at the end of the decompressed buffer and it

explicitly uses memmove() to handle overlapping:

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|_ direction of decompression --> ____ |_ compressed data _|

Although EROFS arranges compressed data like this, it typically maps two

individual virtual buffers so the relative order is uncertain.

Previously, it was hardly observed since LZ4 only uses memmove() for

short overlapped literals and x86/arm64 memmove implementations seem to

completely cover it up and they don't have this issue. Juhyung reported

that EROFS data corruption can be found on a new Intel x86 p

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References