CVE-2023-52928

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52928
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52928.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-52928
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-03-27T16:37:10Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:36Z
Summary
bpf: Skip invalid kfunc call in backtrack_insn
Details

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

bpf: Skip invalid kfunc call in backtrack_insn

The verifier skips invalid kfunc call in check_kfunc_call(), which would be captured in fixup_kfunc_call() if such insn is not eliminated by dead code elimination. However, this can lead to the following warning in backtrack_insn(), also see [1]:

------------[ cut here ]------------ verifier backtracking bug WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8646 at kernel/bpf/verifier.c:2756 backtrack_insn kernel/bpf/verifier.c:2756 __mark_chain_precision kernel/bpf/verifier.c:3065 mark_chain_precision kernel/bpf/verifier.c:3165 adjust_reg_min_max_vals kernel/bpf/verifier.c:10715 check_alu_op kernel/bpf/verifier.c:10928 do_check kernel/bpf/verifier.c:13821 [inline] do_check_common kernel/bpf/verifier.c:16289 [...]

So make backtracking conservative with this by returning ENOTSUPP.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACkBjsaXNceR8ZjkLG=dT3P=4A8SBsg0Z5h5PWLryF5=ghKq=g@mail.gmail.com/

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52928.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
e6ac2450d6dee3121cd8bbf2907b78a68a8a353d
Fixed
6e2fac197de2c4c041bdd8982cffb104689113f1
Fixed
74eec8266f37aff609db6a2f2b093e56a11c28c4
Fixed
d3178e8a434b58678d99257c0387810a24042fb6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52928.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.13.0
Fixed
5.15.93
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.11

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52928.json"