CVE-2023-53331
pstore/ram: Check start of empty przs during init
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Sep 16, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 16, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pstore/ram: Check start of empty przs during init
After commit 30696378f68a ("pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid"), initialization would assume a prz was valid after seeing that the buffer_size is zero (regardless of the buffer start position). This unchecked start value means it could be outside the bounds of the buffer, leading to future access panics when written to:
sysdump_panic_event+0x3b4/0x5b8 atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x54/0x90 panic+0x1c8/0x42c die+0x29c/0x2a8 die_kernel_fault+0x68/0x78 __do_kernel_fault+0x1c4/0x1e0 do_bad_area+0x40/0x100 do_translation_fault+0x68/0x80 do_mem_abort+0x68/0xf8 el1_da+0x1c/0xc0 __raw_writeb+0x38/0x174 __memcpy_toio+0x40/0xac persistent_ram_update+0x44/0x12c persistent_ram_write+0x1a8/0x1b8 ramoops_pstore_write+0x198/0x1e8 pstore_console_write+0x94/0xe0 ...
To avoid this, also check if the prz start is 0 during the initialization phase. If not, the next prz sanity check case will discover it (start > size) and zap the buffer back to a sane state.
[kees: update commit log with backtrace and clarifications]
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89312657337e6e03ad6e9ea1a462bd9c158c85c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c807ccdd812d18985860504b503899f3140a9549
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e972231db29b5d1dccc13bf9d5ba55b6979a69ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc2f60de9a7d3efd982440117dab5579898d808c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fedecaeef88899d940b69368c996e8b3b0b8650d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e95d7a8a6edd14f8fab44c777dd7281db91f6ae2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f77990358628b01bdc03752126ff5f716ea37615
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25fb4e3402d46f425ec135ef6f09792a4c1b3003
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe8c3623ab06603eb760444a032d426542212021
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