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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Mar 27, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 15, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

RDMA/core: Fix ib block iterator counter overflow

When registering a new DMA MR after selecting the best aligned page size
for it, we iterate over the given sglist to split each entry to smaller,
aligned to the selected page size, DMA blocks.

In given circumstances where the sg entry and page size fit certain
sizes and the sg entry is not aligned to the selected page size, the
total size of the aligned pages we need to cover the sg entry is >= 4GB.
Under this circumstances, while iterating page aligned blocks, the
counter responsible for counting how much we advanced from the start of
the sg entry is overflowed because its type is u32 and we pass 4GB in
size. This can lead to an infinite loop inside the iterator function
because the overflow prevents the counter to be larger
than the size of the sg entry.

Fix the presented problem by changing the advancement condition to
eliminate overflow.

Backtrace:
[ 192.374329] efa_reg_user_mr_dmabuf
[ 192.376783] efa_register_mr
[ 192.382579] pgsz_bitmap 0xfffff000 rounddown 0x80000000
[ 192.386423] pg_sz [0x80000000] umem_length[0xc0000000]
[ 192.392657] start 0x0 length 0xc0000000 params.page_shift 31 params.page_num 3
[ 192.399559] hp_cnt[3], pages_in_hp[524288]
[ 192.403690] umem->sgt_append.sgt.nents[1]
[ 192.407905] number entries: [1], pg_bit: [31]
[ 192.411397] biter->__sg_nents [1] biter->__sg [0000000008b0c5d8]
[ 192.415601] biter->__sg_advance [665837568] sg_dma_len[3221225472]
[ 192.419823] biter->__sg_nents [1] biter->__sg [0000000008b0c5d8]
[ 192.423976] biter->__sg_advance [2813321216] sg_dma_len[3221225472]
[ 192.428243] biter->__sg_nents [1] biter->__sg [0000000008b0c5d8]
[ 192.432397] biter->__sg_advance [665837568] sg_dma_len[3221225472]

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 27, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 27, 2025
Last updated Apr 15, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(1st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53026

GHSA ID

GHSA-gr26-qx48-q4hh

Source code

No known source code

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