CVE-2023-52665 in Linux
Summary
by MITRE • 05/17/2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/ps3_defconfig: Disable PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2
Commit 8c5fa3b5c4df ("powerpc/64: Make ELFv2 the default for big-endian builds"), merged in Linux-6.5-rc1 changes the calling ABI in a way that is incompatible with the current code for the PS3's LV1 hypervisor calls.
This change just adds the line '# CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 is not set' to the ps3_defconfig file so that the PPC64_ELF_ABI_V1 is used.
Fixes run time errors like these:
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000047cf0 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
Call Trace: [c0000000023039e0] [c00000000100ebfc] ps3_create_spu+0xc4/0x2b0 (unreliable)
[c000000002303ab0] [c00000000100d4c4] create_spu+0xcc/0x3c4
[c000000002303b40] [c00000000100eae4] ps3_enumerate_spus+0xa4/0xf8
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