CVE-2024-53123Medium

Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-53123 — azl3 kernel

Published
January 29, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.57.1-7 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.64.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update6.6.64.2-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-53123

EchelonGraph score
5.5 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: error out earlier on disconnect Eric reported a division by zero splat in the MPTCP protocol: Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6094 Comm: syz-executor317 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-syzkaller-00291-g05b92660cdfe #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 RIP: 0010:__tcp_select_window+0x5b4/0x1310 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3163 Code: f6 44 01 e3 89 df e8 9b 75 09 f8 44 39 f3 0f 8d 11 ff ff ff e8 0d 74 09 f8 45 89 f4 e9 04 ff ff ff e8 00 74 09 f8 44 89 f0 99 <f7> 7c 24 14 41 29 d6 45 89 f4 e9 ec fe ff ff e8 e8 73 09 f8 48 89 RSP: 0018:ffffc900041f7930 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000017e67 RBX: 0000000000017e67 RCX: ffffffff8983314b RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff898331b0 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00000000005d6000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000017e67 R10: 0000000000003e80 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000003e80 R13: ffff888031d9b440 R14: 0000000000017e67 R15: 00000000002eb000 FS: 00007feb5d7f16c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007feb5d8adbb8 CR3: 0000000074e4c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> __tcp_cleanup_rbuf+0x3e7/0x4b0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1493 mptcp_rcv_space_adjust net/mptcp/protocol.c:2085 [inline] mptcp_recvmsg+0x2156/0x2600 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2289 inet_recvmsg+0x469/0x6a0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:885 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1051 [inline] sock_recvmsg+0x1b2/0x250 net/socket.c:1073 __sys_recvfrom+0x1a5/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2265 __do_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2283 [inline] __se_sys_recvfrom net/socket.c:2279 [inline] __x64_sys_recvfrom+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2279 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7feb5d857559 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 18 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007feb5d7f1208 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002d RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007feb5d8e1318 RCX: 00007feb5d857559 RDX: 000000800000000e RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007feb5d8e1310 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff81000000 R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007feb5d8e131c R13: 00007feb5d8ae074 R14: 000000800000000e R15: 00000000fffffdef and provided a nice reproducer. The root cause is the current bad handling of racing disconnect. After the blamed commit below, sk_wait_data() can return (with error) with the underlying socket disconnected and a zero rcv_mss. Catch the error and return without performing any additional operations on the current socket.

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-53123, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

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