CVE-2023-52767
Published: May 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
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().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 5ad627faed136089e27bcd15e0c33760e575c8c3 - < 944900fe2736c07288efe2d9394db4d3ca23f2c9affected df720d288dbb1793e82b6ccbfc670ec871e9def4 - < 2214e2bb5489145aba944874d0ee1652a0a63dc8affected df720d288dbb1793e82b6ccbfc670ec871e9def4 - < 53f2cb491b500897a619ff6abd72f565933760f0 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.5unaffected 0 - < 6.5unaffected 6.6.4 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.7 - <= * |
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