CVE-2023-52596

Name	CVE-2023-52596
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to see if header is a permanently empty directory (used for mounts). This check evaluates the first element of the ctl_table. This results in an out of bounds evaluation when registering empty directories. The function register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_table of size 1 instead of size 0. It now relies solely on the type to identify a permanently empty register. Make sure that the ctl_table has at least one element before testing for permanent emptiness.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.205-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.85-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.6.15-2	vulnerable
	sid	6.7.12-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	6.7.7-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/315552310c7de92baea4e570967066569937a843 (6.8-rc1)