{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2023-54170", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-12-30T12:06:44.496Z", "datePublished": "2025-12-30T12:08:44.763Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:56:48.287Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:56:48.287Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkeys: Fix linking a duplicate key to a keyring's assoc_array\n\nWhen making a DNS query inside the kernel using dns_query(), the request\ncode can in rare cases end up creating a duplicate index key in the\nassoc_array of the destination keyring. It is eventually found by\na BUG_ON() check in the assoc_array implementation and results in\na crash.\n\nExample report:\n[2158499.700025] kernel BUG at ../lib/assoc_array.c:652!\n[2158499.700039] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n[2158499.700065] CPU: 3 PID: 31985 Comm: kworker/3:1 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.3.18-150300.59.90-default #1 SLE15-SP3\n[2158499.700096] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020\n[2158499.700351] Workqueue: cifsiod cifs_resolve_server [cifs]\n[2158499.700380] RIP: 0010:assoc_array_insert+0x85f/0xa40\n[2158499.700401] Code: ff 74 2b 48 8b 3b 49 8b 45 18 4c 89 e6 48 83 e7 fe e8 95 ec 74 00 3b 45 88 7d db 85 c0 79 d4 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b e8 41 f2 be ff <0f> 0b 0f 0b 81 7d 88 ff ff ff 7f 4c 89 eb 4c 8b ad 58 ff ff ff 0f\n[2158499.700448] RSP: 0018:ffffc0bd6187faf0 EFLAGS: 00010282\n[2158499.700470] RAX: ffff9f1ea7da2fe8 RBX: ffff9f1ea7da2fc1 RCX: 0000000000000005\n[2158499.700492] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000000\n[2158499.700515] RBP: ffffc0bd6187fbb0 R08: ffff9f185faf1100 R09: 0000000000000000\n[2158499.700538] R10: ffff9f1ea7da2cc0 R11: 000000005ed8cec8 R12: ffffc0bd6187fc28\n[2158499.700561] R13: ffff9f15feb8d000 R14: ffff9f1ea7da2fc0 R15: ffff9f168dc0d740\n[2158499.700585] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f185fac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[2158499.700610] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[2158499.700630] CR2: 00007fdd94fca238 CR3: 0000000809d8c006 CR4: 00000000003706e0\n[2158499.700702] Call Trace:\n[2158499.700741] ? key_alloc+0x447/0x4b0\n[2158499.700768] ? __key_link_begin+0x43/0xa0\n[2158499.700790] __key_link_begin+0x43/0xa0\n[2158499.700814] request_key_and_link+0x2c7/0x730\n[2158499.700847] ? dns_resolver_read+0x20/0x20 [dns_resolver]\n[2158499.700873] ? key_default_cmp+0x20/0x20\n[2158499.700898] request_key_tag+0x43/0xa0\n[2158499.700926] dns_query+0x114/0x2ca [dns_resolver]\n[2158499.701127] dns_resolve_server_name_to_ip+0x194/0x310 [cifs]\n[2158499.701164] ? scnprintf+0x49/0x90\n[2158499.701190] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70\n[2158499.701211] ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70\n[2158499.701405] reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname+0x81/0x2a0 [cifs]\n[2158499.701603] cifs_resolve_server+0x4b/0xd0 [cifs]\n[2158499.701632] process_one_work+0x1f8/0x3e0\n[2158499.701658] worker_thread+0x2d/0x3f0\n[2158499.701682] ? process_one_work+0x3e0/0x3e0\n[2158499.701703] kthread+0x10d/0x130\n[2158499.701723] ? kthread_park+0xb0/0xb0\n[2158499.701746] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40\n\nThe situation occurs as follows:\n* Some kernel facility invokes dns_query() to resolve a hostname, for\n example, \"abcdef\". The function registers its global DNS resolver\n cache as current->cred.thread_keyring and passes the query to\n request_key_net() -> request_key_tag() -> request_key_and_link().\n* Function request_key_and_link() creates a keyring_search_context\n object. Its match_data.cmp method gets set via a call to\n type->match_preparse() (resolves to dns_resolver_match_preparse()) to\n dns_resolver_cmp().\n* Function request_key_and_link() continues and invokes\n search_process_keyrings_rcu() which returns that a given key was not\n found. The control is then passed to request_key_and_link() ->\n construct_alloc_key().\n* Concurrently to that, a second task similarly makes a DNS query for\n \"abcdef.\" and its result gets inserted into the DNS resolver cache.\n* Back on the first task, function construct_alloc_key() first runs\n __key_link_begin() to determine an assoc_array_edit operation to\n insert a new key. Index keys in the array are compared exactly as-is,\n using keyring_compare_object(). The operation \n---truncated---" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "security/keys/request_key.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "df593ee23e05cdda16c8c995e5818779431bb29f", "lessThan": "65bd66a794bfa059375ec834885bb610d75c0182", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "df593ee23e05cdda16c8c995e5818779431bb29f", "lessThan": "0a6b0ca58685be34979236f83f2b322635b80b32", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "df593ee23e05cdda16c8c995e5818779431bb29f", "lessThan": "9aecfebea24fe6071ace5cc9fd6d690b87276bbb", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "df593ee23e05cdda16c8c995e5818779431bb29f", "lessThan": "00edfa6d4fe022942e2f2e6f3294ff13ef78b15c", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "df593ee23e05cdda16c8c995e5818779431bb29f", "lessThan": "e091bb55af9a930801f83df78195a908a76e1479", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "df593ee23e05cdda16c8c995e5818779431bb29f", "lessThan": "d55901522f96082a43b9842d34867363c0cdbac5", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "security/keys/request_key.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.3", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.3", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "5.4.253", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "5.10.188", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "5.15.123", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.1.42", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.4.7", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.4.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.3", "versionEndExcluding": "5.4.253" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.3", "versionEndExcluding": "5.10.188" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.3", "versionEndExcluding": "5.15.123" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.42" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.4.7" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.3", "versionEndExcluding": "6.5" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65bd66a794bfa059375ec834885bb610d75c0182" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6b0ca58685be34979236f83f2b322635b80b32" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9aecfebea24fe6071ace5cc9fd6d690b87276bbb" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00edfa6d4fe022942e2f2e6f3294ff13ef78b15c" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e091bb55af9a930801f83df78195a908a76e1479" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d55901522f96082a43b9842d34867363c0cdbac5" } ], "title": "keys: Fix linking a duplicate key to a keyring's assoc_array", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }