net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff The ENA adapters on our instances occasionally reset. Once recently logged a UBSAN failure to console in the process: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in build/linux/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c:540:13 shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int' CPU: 28 PID: 70012 Comm: kworker/u72:2 Kdump: loaded not tainted 5.15.117 Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017 Workqueue: ena ena_fw_reset_device [ena] Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63 dump_stack+0x10/0x16 ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x36 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x61/0x10e ? __const_udelay+0x43/0x50 ena_delay_exponential_backoff_us.cold+0x16/0x1e [ena] wait_for_reset_state+0x54/0xa0 [ena] ena_com_dev_reset+0xc8/0x110 [ena] ena_down+0x3fe/0x480 [ena] ena_destroy_device+0xeb/0xf0 [ena] ena_fw_reset_device+0x30/0x50 [ena] process_one_work+0x22b/0x3d0 worker_thread+0x4d/0x3f0 ? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0 kthread+0x12a/0x150 ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> Apparently, the reset delays are getting so large they can trigger a UBSAN panic. Looking at the code, the current timeout is capped at 5000us. Using a base value of 100us, the current code will overflow after (1<<29). Even at values before 32, this function wraps around, perhaps unintentionally. Cap the value of the exponent used for this backoff at (1<<16) which is larger than currently necessary, but large enough to support bigger values in the future.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 5.8 and later | 5.10.188, 5.15.121, 6.1.40, 6.4.5, 6.5 | Patch available | CNA |
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 5.8 and later Fixed in 5.10.188, 5.15.121, 6.1.40, 6.4.5, 6.5 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.188, 5.15.121, 6.1.40, 6.4.5, 6.5
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 3 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-53272
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7cp5-c68m-6w8h
References
Patch 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e760b2d18bf129b3da052c2946c02758e97d15e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e36cc94d6e60a27f27498adf1c71eeba769ab33
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90947ebf8794e3c229fb2e16e37f1bfea6877f14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0939c264729d4a081ff88efce2ffdf85dc5331e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e9cb763e9bacf0c932aa948f50dcfca6f519a26
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Sources
- CVE-2023-53272 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-53272 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7cp5-c68m-6w8h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2023-53272 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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