{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52889","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  apparmor: Fix null pointer deref when receiving skb during sock creation  The panic below is observed when receiving ICMP packets with secmark set while an ICMP raw socket is being created. SK_CTX(sk)-\u003elabel is updated in apparmor_socket_post_create(), but the packet is delivered to the socket before that, causing the null pointer dereference. Drop the packet if label context is not set.      BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000004c     #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode     #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page     PGD 0 P4D 0     Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI     CPU: 0 PID: 407 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.4.12-arch1-1 #1 3e6fa2753a2d75925c34ecb78e22e85a65d083df     Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 05/28/2020     RIP: 0010:aa_label_next_confined+0xb/0x40     Code: 00 00 48 89 ef e8 d5 25 0c 00 e9 66 ff ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 66 0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 f0 \u003c8b\u003e 77 4c 39 c6 7e 1f 48 63 d0 48 8d 14 d7 eb 0b 83 c0 01 48 83 c2     RSP: 0018:ffffa92940003b08 EFLAGS: 00010246     RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000000e     RDX: ffffa92940003be8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000     RBP: ffff8b57471e7800 R08: ffff8b574c642400 R09: 0000000000000002     R10: ffffffffbd820eeb R11: ffffffffbeb7ff00 R12: ffff8b574c642400     R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000     FS:  00007fb092ea7640(0000) GS:ffff8b577bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000     CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033     CR2: 000000000000004c CR3: 00000001020f2005 CR4: 00000000007706f0     PKRU: 55555554     Call Trace:      \u003cIRQ\u003e      ? __die+0x23/0x70      ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4e0      ? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180      ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30      ? aa_label_next_confined+0xb/0x40      apparmor_secmark_check+0xec/0x330      security_sock_rcv_skb+0x35/0x50      sk_filter_trim_cap+0x47/0x250      sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason+0x20/0x60      raw_rcv+0x13c/0x210      raw_local_deliver+0x1f3/0x250      ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x4f/0x2f0      ip_local_deliver_finish+0x76/0xa0      __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x89/0xa0      netif_receive_skb+0x119/0x170      ? __netdev_alloc_skb+0x3d/0x140      vmxnet3_rq_rx_complete+0xb23/0x1010 [vmxnet3 56a84f9c97178c57a43a24ec073b45a9d6f01f3a]      vmxnet3_poll_rx_only+0x36/0xb0 [vmxnet3 56a84f9c97178c57a43a24ec073b45a9d6f01f3a]      __napi_poll+0x28/0x1b0      net_rx_action+0x2a4/0x380      __do_softirq+0xd1/0x2c8      __irq_exit_rcu+0xbb/0xf0      common_interrupt+0x86/0xa0      \u003c/IRQ\u003e      \u003cTASK\u003e      asm_common_interrupt+0x26/0x40     RIP: 0010:apparmor_socket_post_create+0xb/0x200     Code: 08 48 85 ff 75 a1 eb b1 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 \u003c55\u003e 48 89 fd 53 45 85 c0 0f 84 b2 00 00 00 48 8b 1d 80 56 3f 02 48     RSP: 0018:ffffa92940ce7e50 EFLAGS: 00000286     RAX: ffffffffbc756440 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001     RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff8b574eaab740     RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000     R10: ffff8b57444cec70 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000003     R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff8b574eaab740 R15: ffffffffbd8e4748      ? __pfx_apparmor_socket_post_create+0x10/0x10      security_socket_post_create+0x4b/0x80      __sock_create+0x176/0x1f0      __sys_socket+0x89/0x100      __x64_sys_socket+0x17/0x20      do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x90      ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90      ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90      ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc","modified":"2026-09-15T09:03:02.434519133Z","published":"2024-08-17T09:15:07.073Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-52889"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-52889"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.106-1"}]}],"versions":["6.1.27-1","6.1.37-1","6.1.38-1","6.1.38-2","6.1.38-2~bpo11+1","6.1.38-3","6.1.38-4","6.1.38-4~bpo11+1","6.1.52-1","6.1.55-1","6.1.55-1~bpo11+1","6.1.64-1","6.1.66-1","6.1.67-1","6.1.69-1","6.1.69-1~bpo11+1","6.1.76-1","6.1.76-1~bpo11+1","6.1.82-1","6.1.85-1","6.1.90-1","6.1.90-1~bpo11+1","6.1.94-1","6.1.94-1~bpo11+1","6.1.98-1","6.1.99-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52889.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.10.3-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52889.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.10.3-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52889.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}