CVE-2023-52928

bpf: Skip invalid kfunc call in backtrack_insn

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

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

bpf: Skip invalid kfunc call in backtrack_insn

The verifier skips invalid kfunc call in check_kfunc_call(), which would be captured in fixup_kfunc_call() if such insn is not eliminated by dead code elimination. However, this can lead to the following warning in backtrack_insn(), also see [1]:

------------[ cut here ]------------ verifier backtracking bug WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8646 at kernel/bpf/verifier.c:2756 backtrack_insn kernel/bpf/verifier.c:2756 __mark_chain_precision kernel/bpf/verifier.c:3065 mark_chain_precision kernel/bpf/verifier.c:3165 adjust_reg_min_max_vals kernel/bpf/verifier.c:10715 check_alu_op kernel/bpf/verifier.c:10928 do_check kernel/bpf/verifier.c:13821 [inline] do_check_common kernel/bpf/verifier.c:16289 [...]

So make backtracking conservative with this by returning ENOTSUPP.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACkBjsaXNceR8ZjkLG=dT3P=4A8SBsg0Z5h5PWLryF5=ghKq=g@mail.gmail.com/

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e6ac2450d6dee3121cd8bbf2907b78a68a8a353d to before 6e2fac197de2c4c041bdd8982cffb104689113f1Affected
  • e6ac2450d6dee3121cd8bbf2907b78a68a8a353d to before 74eec8266f37aff609db6a2f2b093e56a11c28c4Affected
  • e6ac2450d6dee3121cd8bbf2907b78a68a8a353d to before d3178e8a434b58678d99257c0387810a24042fb6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.13Affected
  • before 5.13Not affected
  • 5.15.93 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.11 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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