Bug 1224599 (CVE-2023-52665) - VUL-0: CVE-2023-52665: kernel: powerpc/ps3_defconfig: Disable PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-52665: kernel: powerpc/ps3_defconfig: Disable PPC64_BIG_ENDIA...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2023-52665
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
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Assignee: Security Team bot
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/406450/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2023-52665:5.5:(AV:...
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Reported: 2024-05-20 15:30 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified: 2024-06-10 12:23 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-05-20 15:30:00 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/ps3_defconfig: Disable PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2

Commit 8c5fa3b5c4df ("powerpc/64: Make ELFv2 the default for big-endian
builds"), merged in Linux-6.5-rc1 changes the calling ABI in a way
that is incompatible with the current code for the PS3's LV1 hypervisor
calls.

This change just adds the line '# CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 is not set'
to the ps3_defconfig file so that the PPC64_ELF_ABI_V1 is used.

Fixes run time errors like these:

  BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000000
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000047cf0
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  Call Trace:
  [c0000000023039e0] [c00000000100ebfc] ps3_create_spu+0xc4/0x2b0 (unreliable)
  [c000000002303ab0] [c00000000100d4c4] create_spu+0xcc/0x3c4
  [c000000002303b40] [c00000000100eae4] ps3_enumerate_spus+0xa4/0xf8

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-52665
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2023/CVE-2023-52665.mbox
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f70557d48215b14a9284ac3a6ae7e4ee1d039f10
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0f0780f03df54d08ced118d27834ee5008724e4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/482b718a84f08b6fc84879c3e90cc57dba11c115
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52665
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281354
Comment 1 Joey Lee 2024-05-21 08:49:02 UTC
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52665.html
cvss 5.5
Comment 2 Michal Suchanek 2024-05-21 11:30:19 UTC
We do not support PS3 nor bigendian with any Linux kernel after 3.0.
Comment 4 Gabriele Sonnu 2024-06-10 12:23:27 UTC
All done, closing.