CVE-2023-53083

nfsd: don't replace page in rq_pages if it's a continuation of last page

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
May 2, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 2, 2025

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Description

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

nfsd: don't replace page in rq_pages if it's a continuation of last page

The splice read calls nfsd_splice_actor to put the pages containing file data into the svc_rqst->rq_pages array. It's possible however to get a splice result that only has a partial page at the end, if (e.g.) the filesystem hands back a short read that doesn't cover the whole page.

nfsd_splice_actor will plop the partial page into its rq_pages array and return. Then later, when nfsd_splice_actor is called again, the remainder of the page may end up being filled out. At this point, nfsd_splice_actor will put the page into the array _again_ corrupting the reply. If this is done enough times, rq_next_page will overrun the array and corrupt the trailing fields -- the rq_respages and rq_next_page pointers themselves.

If we've already added the page to the array in the last pass, don't add it to the array a second time when dealing with a splice continuation. This was originally handled properly in nfsd_splice_actor, but commit 91e23b1c3982 ("NFSD: Clean up nfsd_splice_actor()") removed the check for it.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bf1cbe2f3650b4f4a8add6af933c6d7f6af1f361 to before 8235cd619db6e67f1d7d26c55f1f3e4e575c947dAffected
  • 56bc7e3821e847a6cc8027ddaba32e9a440225a5 to before 12eca509234acb6b666802edf77408bb70d7bfcaAffected
  • 91e23b1c39820bfed642119ff6b6ef9f43cf09ce to before 51ddb84baff6f09ad62b5999ece3ec172e4e3568Affected
  • 91e23b1c39820bfed642119ff6b6ef9f43cf09ce to before 0101067f376eb7b9afd00279270f25d5111a091dAffected
  • 91e23b1c39820bfed642119ff6b6ef9f43cf09ce to before 27c934dd8832dd40fd34776f916dc201e18b319bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.1.22 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.9 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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