In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() Following process: P1 P2 path_openat link_path_walk may_lookup inode_permission(rcu) ovl_permission acl_permission_check check_acl get_cached_acl_rcu ovl_get_inode_acl realinode = ovl_inode_real(ovl_inode) drop_cache __dentry_kill(ovl_dentry) iput(ovl_inode) ovl_destroy_inode(ovl_inode) dput(oi->__upperdentry) dentry_kill(upperdentry) dentry_unlink_inode upperdentry->d_inode = NULL ovl_inode_upper upperdentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(ovl_inode) d_inode(upperdentry) // returns NULL IS_POSIXACL(realinode) // NULL pointer dereference , will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode: [ 205.472797] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 [ 205.476701] CPU: 2 PID: 2713 Comm: ls Not tainted 6.3.0-12064-g2edfa098e750-dirty #1216 [ 205.478754] RIP: 0010:do_ovl_get_acl+0x5d/0x300 [ 205.489584] Call Trace: [ 205.489812] <TASK> [ 205.490014] ovl_get_inode_acl+0x26/0x30 [ 205.490466] get_cached_acl_rcu+0x61/0xa0 [ 205.490908] generic_permission+0x1bf/0x4e0 [ 205.491447] ovl_permission+0x79/0x1b0 [ 205.491917] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0 [ 205.492425] link_path_walk+0x115/0x550 [ 205.493311] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200 [ 205.493803] filename_lookup+0xda/0x240 [ 205.495747] vfs_fstatat+0x7b/0xb0 Fetch a reproducer in [Link]. Use the helper ovl_i_path_realinode() to get realinode and then do non-nullptr checking.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() Following process: P1 P2 path_openat link_path_walk     may_lookup inode_permission(rcu) ovl_permission acl_permission_check check_acl get_cached_acl_rcu     ovl_get_inode_acl realinode = ovl_inode_real(ovl_inode) drop_cache __dentry_kill(ovl_dentry)     iput(ovl_inode) ovl_destroy_inode(ovl_inode) dput(oi->__upperdentry) dentry_kill(upperdentry)     dentry_unlink_inode upperdentry->d_inode = NULL ovl_inode_upper upperdentry =     ovl_i_dentry_upper(ovl_inode) d_inode(upperdentry) // returns NULL IS_POSIXACL(realinode) // NULL pointer     dereference , will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode: [ 205.472797] BUG: kernel NULL     pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 [ 205.476701] CPU: 2 PID: 2713 Comm: ls Not tainted     6.3.0-12064-g2edfa098e750-dirty #1216 [ 205.478754] RIP: 0010:do_ovl_get_acl+0x5d/0x300 [ 205.489584] Call     Trace: [ 205.489812] <TASK> [ 205.490014] ovl_get_inode_acl+0x26/0x30 [ 205.490466]     get_cached_acl_rcu+0x61/0xa0 [ 205.490908] generic_permission+0x1bf/0x4e0 [ 205.491447]     ovl_permission+0x79/0x1b0 [ 205.491917] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0 [ 205.492425]     link_path_walk+0x115/0x550 [ 205.493311] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200 [ 205.493803]     filename_lookup+0xda/0x240 [ 205.495747] vfs_fstatat+0x7b/0xb0 Fetch a reproducer in [Link]. Use the     helper ovl_i_path_realinode() to get realinode and then do non-nullptr checking. (CVE-2023-54313)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-299 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.2. The ntfs3 subsystem does not properly check for     correctness during disk reads, leading to an out-of-bounds read in ntfs_set_ea in fs/ntfs3/xattr.c.
    (CVE-2022-48502)

    An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited     to achieve local privilege escalation.

    The qfq_change_agg() function in net/sched/sch_qfq.c allows an out-of-bounds write because lmax is updated     according to packet sizes without bounds checks.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 3e337087c3b5805fe0b8a46ba622a962880b5d64. (CVE-2023-3611)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    If tcf_change_indev() fails, fw_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or     decrementing the reference counter in tcf_bind_filter(). If an attacker can control the reference counter     and set it to zero, they can cause the reference to be freed, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 0323bce598eea038714f941ce2b22541c46d488f. (CVE-2023-3776)

    An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in Netfilter Connection Tracking (conntrack) in the Linux     kernel. This flaw allows a remote user to disclose sensitive information via the DCCP protocol.
    (CVE-2023-39197)

    An issue was discovered in net/ceph/messenger_v2.c in the Linux kernel before 6.4.5. There is an integer     signedness error, leading to a buffer overflow and remote code execution via HELLO or one of the AUTH     frames. This occurs because of an untrusted length taken from a TCP packet in ceph_decode_32.
    (CVE-2023-44466)

    In the Linux kernel before 6.4.5, drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c has a use-after-free during a race     condition between a nonblocking atomic commit and a driver unload. (CVE-2023-51043)

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

    SUNRPC: Fix UAF in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready() (CVE-2023-52885)

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

    tracing: Fix null pointer dereference in tracing_err_log_open() (CVE-2023-53167)

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

    ipv6/addrconf: fix a potential refcount underflow for idev (CVE-2023-53189)

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

    bpf: Fix memleak due to fentry attach failure (CVE-2023-53221)

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

    btrfs: add handling for RAID1C23/DUP to btrfs_reduce_alloc_profile (CVE-2023-53243)

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

    net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset() (CVE-2023-53312)

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

    md/raid10: fix wrong setting of max_corr_read_errors (CVE-2023-53313)

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

    ext2/dax: Fix ext2_setsize when len is page aligned (CVE-2023-53323)

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

    netfilter: conntrack: dccp: copy entire header to stack buffer, not just basic one (CVE-2023-53333)

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

    icmp6: Fix null-ptr-deref of ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev in icmp6_dev(). (CVE-2023-53343)

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

    md/raid10: check slab-out-of-bounds in md_bitmap_get_counter (CVE-2023-53357)

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

    bus: fsl-mc: don't assume child devices are all fsl-mc devices (CVE-2023-53362)

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

    cifs: prevent use-after-free by freeing the cfile later (CVE-2023-53377)

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

    md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref of mreplace in raid10_sync_request (CVE-2023-53380)

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

    shmem: use ramfs_kill_sb() for kill_sb method of ramfs-based tmpfs (CVE-2023-53391)

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

    ntfs: Fix panic about slab-out-of-bounds caused by ntfs_listxattr() (CVE-2023-53420)

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

    bpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem (CVE-2023-53441)

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

    PCI/ASPM: Disable ASPM on MFD function removal to avoid use-after-free (CVE-2023-53446)

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

    io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit (CVE-2023-53461)

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

    tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables (CVE-2023-53560)

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

    bonding: do not assume skb mac_header is set (CVE-2023-53601)

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

    dax: Fix dax_mapping_release() use after free (CVE-2023-53613)

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

    netfilter: conntrack: Avoid nf_ct_helper_hash uses after free (CVE-2023-53619)

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

    drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown (CVE-2023-53656)

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

    ring-buffer: Fix deadloop issue on reading trace_pipe (CVE-2023-53668)

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

    nvme-core: fix dev_pm_qos memleak (CVE-2023-53670)

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

    clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register() (CVE-2023-53674)

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

    bcache: Fix __bch_btree_node_alloc to make the failure behavior consistent (CVE-2023-53681)

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

    arm64: sme: Use STR P to clear FFR context field in streaming SVE mode (CVE-2023-53713)

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

    blk-iocost: use spin_lock_irqsave in adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost (CVE-2023-53730)

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

    netlink: fix potential deadlock in netlink_set_err() (CVE-2023-53731)

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

    regmap-irq: Fix out-of-bounds access when allocating config buffers (CVE-2023-53768)

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

    nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_ctrl_secret (CVE-2023-53792)

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

    perf tool x86: Fix perf_env memory leak (CVE-2023-53793)

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

    posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete() (CVE-2023-53815)

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

    drm/ttm: Don't leak a resource on swapout move error (CVE-2023-53844)

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

    nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_secret_store (CVE-2023-53852)

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

    netlink: do not hard code device address lenth in fdb dumps (CVE-2023-53863)

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

    hwrng: virtio - Fix race on data_avail and actual data (CVE-2023-53998)

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

    btrfs: fix race when deleting quota root from the dirty cow roots list (CVE-2023-54032)

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

    btrfs: fix race when deleting free space root from the dirty cow roots list (CVE-2023-54067)

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

    net: prevent skb corruption on frag list segmentation (CVE-2023-54094)

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

    ext4: turn quotas off if mount failed after enabling quotas (CVE-2023-54153)

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

    tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe (CVE-2023-54171)

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

    pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup (CVE-2023-54189)

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

    block: fix blktrace debugfs entries leakage (CVE-2023-54209)

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

    bcache: fixup btree_cache_wait list damage (CVE-2023-54293)

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

    ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() (CVE-2023-54313)

    A denial of service vulnerability due to a deadlock was found in sctp_auto_asconf_init in     net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel's SCTP subsystem. This flaw allows guests with local user privileges     to trigger a deadlock and potentially crash the system. (CVE-2024-0639)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.122-77.145. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-025 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.2. The ntfs3 subsystem does not properly check for     correctness during disk reads, leading to an out-of-bounds read in ntfs_set_ea in fs/ntfs3/xattr.c.
    (CVE-2022-48502)

    A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address     prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled?address, potentially     leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2023-20569)

    An issue in Zen 2 CPUs, under specific microarchitectural circumstances, may allow an attacker to     potentially access sensitive information. (CVE-2023-20593)

    An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited     to achieve local privilege escalation.

    The qfq_change_agg() function in net/sched/sch_qfq.c allows an out-of-bounds write because lmax is updated     according to packet sizes without bounds checks.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 3e337087c3b5805fe0b8a46ba622a962880b5d64. (CVE-2023-3611)

    A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation.

    If tcf_change_indev() fails, fw_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or     decrementing the reference counter in tcf_bind_filter(). If an attacker can control the reference counter     and set it to zero, they can cause the reference to be freed, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability.

    We recommend upgrading past commit 0323bce598eea038714f941ce2b22541c46d488f. (CVE-2023-3776)

    An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in Netfilter Connection Tracking (conntrack) in the Linux     kernel. This flaw allows a remote user to disclose sensitive information via the DCCP protocol.
    (CVE-2023-39197)

    An issue was discovered in net/ceph/messenger_v2.c in the Linux kernel before 6.4.5. There is an integer     signedness error, leading to a buffer overflow and remote code execution via HELLO or one of the AUTH     frames. This occurs because of an untrusted length taken from a TCP packet in ceph_decode_32.
    (CVE-2023-44466)

    In the Linux kernel before 6.4.5, drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c has a use-after-free during a race     condition between a nonblocking atomic commit and a driver unload. (CVE-2023-51043)

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

    SUNRPC: Fix UAF in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready() (CVE-2023-52885)

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

    tracing: Fix null pointer dereference in tracing_err_log_open() (CVE-2023-53167)

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

    ipv6/addrconf: fix a potential refcount underflow for idev (CVE-2023-53189)

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

    btrfs: add handling for RAID1C23/DUP to btrfs_reduce_alloc_profile (CVE-2023-53243)

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

    md/raid10: fix wrong setting of max_corr_read_errors (CVE-2023-53313)

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

    netfilter: conntrack: dccp: copy entire header to stack buffer, not just basic one (CVE-2023-53333)

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

    icmp6: Fix null-ptr-deref of ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev in icmp6_dev(). (CVE-2023-53343)

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

    md/raid10: check slab-out-of-bounds in md_bitmap_get_counter (CVE-2023-53357)

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

    md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref of mreplace in raid10_sync_request (CVE-2023-53380)

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

    shmem: use ramfs_kill_sb() for kill_sb method of ramfs-based tmpfs (CVE-2023-53391)

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

    ntfs: Fix panic about slab-out-of-bounds caused by ntfs_listxattr() (CVE-2023-53420)

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

    bpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem (CVE-2023-53441)

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

    PCI/ASPM: Disable ASPM on MFD function removal to avoid use-after-free (CVE-2023-53446)

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

    io_uring: wait interruptibly for request completions on exit (CVE-2023-53461)

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

    tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables (CVE-2023-53560)

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

    net/mlx5e: Check for NOT_READY flag state after locking (CVE-2023-53581)

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

    bonding: do not assume skb mac_header is set (CVE-2023-53601)

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

    dax: Fix dax_mapping_release() use after free (CVE-2023-53613)

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

    netfilter: conntrack: Avoid nf_ct_helper_hash uses after free (CVE-2023-53619)

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

    ring-buffer: Fix deadloop issue on reading trace_pipe (CVE-2023-53668)

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

    clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register() (CVE-2023-53674)

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

    bcache: Fix __bch_btree_node_alloc to make the failure behavior consistent (CVE-2023-53681)

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

    blk-iocost: use spin_lock_irqsave in adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost (CVE-2023-53730)

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

    netlink: fix potential deadlock in netlink_set_err() (CVE-2023-53731)

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

    posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete() (CVE-2023-53815)

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

    drm/ttm: Don't leak a resource on swapout move error (CVE-2023-53844)

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

    netlink: do not hard code device address lenth in fdb dumps (CVE-2023-53863)

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

    hwrng: virtio - Fix race on data_avail and actual data (CVE-2023-53998)

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

    btrfs: fix race when deleting quota root from the dirty cow roots list (CVE-2023-54032)

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

    net: prevent skb corruption on frag list segmentation (CVE-2023-54094)

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

    ext4: turn quotas off if mount failed after enabling quotas (CVE-2023-54153)

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

    net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open (CVE-2023-54169)

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

    tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe (CVE-2023-54171)

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

    pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup (CVE-2023-54189)

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

    bcache: fixup btree_cache_wait list damage (CVE-2023-54293)

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

    ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() (CVE-2023-54313)

    A denial of service vulnerability due to a deadlock was found in sctp_auto_asconf_init in     net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel's SCTP subsystem. This flaw allows guests with local user privileges     to trigger a deadlock and potentially crash the system. (CVE-2024-0639)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
297194	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
296680	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
296676	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
296481	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
281484	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54313	Nessus	Misc.	medium
180130	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-299)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
179798	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-025 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-025)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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