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De todas formas, en dicha ruta de error, el puntero gen en s\u00ed no se ha modificado a\u00fan, y el existente y al que se ha accedido es m\u00e1s peque\u00f1o que el \u00edndice accedido, lo que provoca un error fuera de los l\u00edmites: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds en ops_init+0x2de/0x320 Escritura de tama\u00f1o 8 en la direcci\u00f3n ffff888109124978 por la tarea modprobe/1018 CPU: 2 PID: 1018 Comm: modprobe No contaminado 6.2.0-rc2.mptcp_ae5ac65fbed5+ #1641 Nombre del hardware: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014 Rastreo de llamadas: dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9f print_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x2b5 print_report+0x11b/0x1fb kasan_report+0x87/0xc0 ops_init+0x2de/0x320 register_pernet_operations+0x2e4/0x750 register_pernet_subsys+0x24/0x40 tcf_register_action+0x9f/0x560 do_one_initcall+0xf9/0x570 do_init_module+0x190/0x650 load_module+0x1fa5/0x23c0 __do_sys_finit_module+0x10d/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc RIP: 0033:0x7f42518f778d Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 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 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d cb 56 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007fff96869688 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005568ef7f7c90 RCX: 00007f42518f778d RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00005568ef41d796 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00005568ef41d796 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00005568ef7f7d30 R14: 0000000000040000 R15: 0000000000000000 Este cambio soluciona el problema omitiendo la desreferencia del puntero gen en la ruta de error mencionada. 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{"affected_release": [{"advisory": "RHSA-2024:2394", "cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "package": "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9", "release_date": "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z"}, {"advisory": "RHSA-2024:2394", "cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "package": "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9", "release_date": "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z"}], "bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: net: fix UaF in netns ops registration error path", "id": "2355485", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355485"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "verified"}, "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nnet: fix UaF in netns ops registration error path\nIf net_assign_generic() fails, the current error path in ops_init() tries\nto clear the gen pointer slot. Anyway, in such error path, the gen pointer\nitself has not been modified yet, and the existing and accessed one is\nsmaller than the accessed index, causing an out-of-bounds error:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ops_init+0x2de/0x320\nWrite of size 8 at addr ffff888109124978 by task modprobe/1018\nCPU: 2 PID: 1018 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2.mptcp_ae5ac65fbed5+ #1641\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\ndump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9f\nprint_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x2b5\nprint_report+0x11b/0x1fb\nkasan_report+0x87/0xc0\nops_init+0x2de/0x320\nregister_pernet_operations+0x2e4/0x750\nregister_pernet_subsys+0x24/0x40\ntcf_register_action+0x9f/0x560\ndo_one_initcall+0xf9/0x570\ndo_init_module+0x190/0x650\nload_module+0x1fa5/0x23c0\n__do_sys_finit_module+0x10d/0x1b0\ndo_syscall_64+0x58/0x80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\nRIP: 0033:0x7f42518f778d\nCode: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48\n89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff\nff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d cb 56 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007fff96869688 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005568ef7f7c90 RCX: 00007f42518f778d\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00005568ef41d796 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 00005568ef41d796 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 00005568ef7f7d30 R14: 0000000000040000 R15: 0000000000000000\n</TASK>\nThis change addresses the issue by skipping the gen pointer\nde-reference in the mentioned error-path.\nFound by code inspection and verified with explicit error injection\non a kasan-enabled kernel.", "A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in the `ops_init()` function, where improper error handling can result in an out-of-bounds error. This issue occurs if the function `net_assign_generic()` fails and the error-handling code attempts to clean up a pointer that was never properly initialized."], "name": "CVE-2023-52999", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Under investigation", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Under investigation", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Under investigation", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2025-03-27T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52999\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52999\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032711-CVE-2023-52999-e28e@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}