CVE-2023-53169
Estado: AnalizadaMedia (5.5)—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/resctrl: Clear staged_config[] before and after it is used
As a temporary storage, staged_config[] in rdt_domain should be cleared before and after it is used. The stale value in staged_config[] could cause an MSR access error.
resctrl_arch_update_domains() iterates and updates all resctrl_conf_type whose have_new_ctrl is true. Since staged_config[] holds the same values as when CDP was enabled, it will continue to update the CDP_CODE and CDP_DATA configurations. When group p8 is created, get_config_index() called in resctrl_arch_update_domains() will return 16 and 17 as the CLOSIDs for CDP_CODE and CDP_DATA, which will be translated to an invalid register - 0xca0 in this scenario.
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Fix it by clearing staged_config[] before and after it is used.
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Here is a reproducer on a system with 16 usable CLOSIDs for a 15-way L3
Cache (MBA should be disabled if the number of CLOSIDs for MB is less than
16.) :
mount -t resctrl resctrl -o cdp /sys/fs/resctrl
mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/p{1..7}
umount /sys/fs/resctrl/
mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/p{1..8}
An error occurs when creating resource group named p8:
unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0xca0 (tried to write 0x00000000000007ff) at rIP: 0xffffffff82249142 (cat_wrmsr+0x32/0x60)
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x11d/0x170
__sysvec_call_function+0x24/0xd0
sysvec_call_function+0x89/0xc0
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_call_function+0x16/0x20
When creating a new resource control group, hardware will be configured
by the following process:
rdtgroup_mkdir()
rdtgroup_mkdir_ctrl_mon()
rdtgroup_init_alloc()
resctrl_arch_update_domains()CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.16%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 4
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
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