CVE-2023-52999

Estado: AnalizadaAlta (7.8)—

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

net: fix UaF in netns ops registration error path

If net_assign_generic() fails, the current error path in ops_init() tries to clear the gen pointer slot. Anyway, in such error path, the gen pointer itself has not been modified yet, and the existing and accessed one is smaller than the accessed index, causing an out-of-bounds error:

This change addresses the issue by skipping the gen pointer de-reference in the mentioned error-path.

Found by code inspection and verified with explicit error injection on a kasan-enabled kernel.

Detalles técnicos trazas, registros y código del informe original

 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ops_init+0x2de/0x320
 Write of size 8 at addr ffff888109124978 by task modprobe/1018

 CPU: 2 PID: 1018 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2.mptcp_ae5ac65fbed5+ #1641
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9f
  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x2b5
  print_report+0x11b/0x1fb
  kasan_report+0x87/0xc0
  ops_init+0x2de/0x320
  register_pernet_operations+0x2e4/0x750
  register_pernet_subsys+0x24/0x40
  tcf_register_action+0x9f/0x560
  do_one_initcall+0xf9/0x570
  do_init_module+0x190/0x650
  load_module+0x1fa5/0x23c0
  __do_sys_finit_module+0x10d/0x1b0
  do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
 RIP: 0033:0x7f42518f778d
 Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48
       89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff
       ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d cb 56 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
 RSP: 002b:00007fff96869688 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005568ef7f7c90 RCX: 00007f42518f778d
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00005568ef41d796 RDI: 0000000000000003
 RBP: 00005568ef41d796 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: 00005568ef7f7d30 R14: 0000000000040000 R15: 0000000000000000
  </TASK>

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Puntuación base: 7.8

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.24%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 14
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).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation75 %
Impacto principalT1499.004 Application or System Exploitationimpact65 %

Vulnerabilidad UaF (CWE-416) en kernel Linux con acceso local (AV:L, PR:L) que permite denial of service o corrupción de memoria en ruta de error de registro de operaciones de netns.

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWE

CWE-416

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