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CVE-2023-53256— firmware: arm_ffa: Fix FFA device names for logical partitions

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Affected
Linux Linux
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No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于FFA设备命名冲突，可能导致逻辑分区注册失败。

AI Predicted 3.3 Difficulty: Trivial EPSS 0.15% · P4

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1055 · Process Injection

Affected Version Matrix 10

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3< c2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593b affected
e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3< dfc5aaa57f52a5800c339369d235fa30fb734feb affected
e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3< 93d0cbe88118fcef234d3ebcbdadcb9ebe9d34f1 affected
e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3< 19b8766459c41c6f318f8a548cc1c66dffd18363 affected
5.14 affected
< 5.14 unaffected
5.15.114≤ 5.15.* unaffected
6.1.31≤ 6.1.* unaffected
… +2 more rows
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2023-53256

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Vulnerability Title
firmware: arm_ffa: Fix FFA device names for logical partitions
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_ffa: Fix FFA device names for logical partitions Each physical partition can provide multiple services each with UUID. Each such service can be presented as logical partition with a unique combination of VM ID and UUID. The number of distinct UUID in a system will be less than or equal to the number of logical partitions. However, currently it fails to register more than one logical partition or service within a physical partition as the device name contains only VM ID while both VM ID and UUID are maintained in the partition information. The kernel complains with the below message: | sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/arm-ffa-8001' | CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7 #8 | Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT) | Call trace: | dump_backtrace+0xf8/0x118 | show_stack+0x18/0x24 | dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x68 | dump_stack+0x18/0x24 | sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xe0/0x13c | kobject_add_internal+0x220/0x3d4 | kobject_add+0x94/0x100 | device_add+0x144/0x5d8 | device_register+0x20/0x30 | ffa_device_register+0x88/0xd8 | ffa_setup_partitions+0x108/0x1b8 | ffa_init+0x2ec/0x3a4 | do_one_initcall+0xcc/0x240 | do_initcall_level+0x8c/0xac | do_initcalls+0x54/0x94 | do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28 | kernel_init_freeable+0x100/0x16c | kernel_init+0x20/0x1a0 | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 | kobject_add_internal failed for arm-ffa-8001 with -EEXIST, don't try to | register things with the same name in the same directory. | arm_ffa arm-ffa: unable to register device arm-ffa-8001 err=-17 | ARM FF-A: ffa_setup_partitions: failed to register partition ID 0x8001 By virtue of being random enough to avoid collisions when generated in a distributed system, there is no way to compress UUID keys to the number of bits required to identify each. We can eliminate '-' in the name but it is not worth eliminating 4 bytes and add unnecessary logic for doing that. Also v1.0 doesn't provide the UUID of the partitions which makes it hard to use the same for the device name. So to keep it simple, let us alloc an ID using ida_alloc() and append the same to "arm-ffa" to make up a unique device name. Also stash the id value in ffa_dev to help freeing the ID later when the device is destroyed.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于FFA设备命名冲突，可能导致逻辑分区注册失败。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Linux Linux e781858488b918e30a6ff28e9eab6058b787e3b3 ~ c2f65991097a62efbdb2bed3c06fc86b08c9593b -
Linux Linux 5.14 -

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