CVE-2023-52775

net/smc: avoid data corruption caused by decline

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 21, 2024 at 03:30 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: avoid data corruption caused by decline We found a data corruption issue during testing of SMC-R on Redis applications. The benchmark has a low probability of reporting a strange error as shown below. "Error: Protocol error, got "\xe2" as reply type byte" Finally, we found that the retrieved error data was as follows: 0xE2 0xD4 0xC3 0xD9 0x04 0x00 0x2C 0x20 0xA6 0x56 0x00 0x16 0x3E 0x0C 0xCB 0x04 0x02 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xE2 It is quite obvious that this is a SMC DECLINE message, which means that the applications received SMC protocol message. We found that this was caused by the following situations: client server ¦ clc proposal -------------> ¦ clc accept <------------- ¦ clc confirm -------------> wait llc confirm send llc confirm ¦failed llc confirm ¦ x------ (after 2s)timeout wait llc confirm rsp wait decline (after 1s) timeout (after 2s) timeout ¦ decline --------------> ¦ decline <-------------- As a result, a decline message was sent in the implementation, and this message was read from TCP by the already-fallback connection. This patch double the client timeout as 2x of the server value, With this simple change, the Decline messages should never cross or collide (during Confirm link timeout). This issue requires an immediate solution, since the protocol updates involve a more long-term solution.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.1415.16 ≤ v < 6.1.655.8 ≤ v < 5.10.2035.8 ≤ v < 5.15.1415.8 ≤ v < 6.1.655.8 ≤ v < 6.6.45.8 ≤ v < 6.76.2 ≤ v < 6.6.40fb0b02bd6fd26cba38002be4a6bbcae2228fd446.7 rc16.7 rc2
Vendor states this is fixed in 5ada292b5c504720a0acef8cae9acc62a694d19c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7234d2b5dffa5af77fd4e0deaebab509e130c6b1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 90072af9efe8c7bd7d086709014ddd44cebd5e7c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 94a0ae698b4d5d5bb598e23228002a1491c50add (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e6d71b437abc2f249e3b6a1ae1a7228e09c6e563 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.203 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.141 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.65 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.7 (unaffected)

References (5)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ada292b5c504720a0acef8cae9acc62a694d19c
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7234d2b5dffa5af77fd4e0deaebab509e130c6b1
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90072af9efe8c7bd7d086709014ddd44cebd5e7c
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94a0ae698b4d5d5bb598e23228002a1491c50add
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6d71b437abc2f249e3b6a1ae1a7228e09c6e563

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787

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