Security Bulletin
Summary
A flaw in the KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) code may allow memory to be accessed that is no longer used, potentially exposing security related information.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-52922
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: bcm: Fix UAF in bcm_proc_show()
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bcm_proc_show+0x969/0xa80
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888155846230 by task cat/7862
CPU: 1 PID: 7862 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1-00153-gc8746099c197 #230
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0xd5/0x150
print_report+0xc1/0x5e0
kasan_report+0xba/0xf0
bcm_proc_show+0x969/0xa80
seq_read_iter+0x4f6/0x1260
seq_read+0x165/0x210
proc_reg_read+0x227/0x300
vfs_read+0x1d5/0x8d0
ksys_read+0x11e/0x240
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Allocated by task 7846:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x9e/0xa0
bcm_sendmsg+0x264b/0x44e0
sock_sendmsg+0xda/0x180
____sys_sendmsg+0x735/0x920
___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1b0
__sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Freed by task 7846:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40
____kasan_slab_free+0x161/0x1c0
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x119/0x220
__kmem_cache_free+0xb4/0x2e0
rcu_core+0x809/0x1bd0
bcm_op is freed before procfs entry be removed in bcm_release(),
this lead to bcm_proc_show() may read the freed bcm_op.
CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| Technical Support Appliance | All |
Remediation/Fixes
Update the IBM Technical Support Appliance to 3.0.4. Refer to the online support documentation on how to perform an update.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
29 Jul 2025: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
29 July 2025
Initial Publish date:
29 July 2025
UID
ibm17240933