CVE-2023-52859 perf: hisi: Fix use-after-free when register pmu fails

What is CVE-2023-52859?

CVE-2023-52859 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

perf: hisi: Fix use-after-free when register pmu fails

When we fail to register the uncore pmu, the pmu context may not been allocated. The error handing will call cpuhp_state_remove_instance() to call uncore pmu offline callback, which migrate the pmu context. Since that's liable to lead to some kind of use-after-free.

Use cpuhp_state_remove_instance_nocalls() instead of cpuhp_state_remove_instance() so that the notifiers don't execute after the PMU device has been failed to register.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52859?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-52859?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2023-52859 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52859 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-52859, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52859, GHSA-72f9-x2qq-3795, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52859.