Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> Description
> ===========
>
> In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
>
> powerpc/ps3_defconfig: Disable PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2
>
> Commit 8c5fa3b5c4df ("powerpc/64: Make ELFv2 the default for big-endian
> builds"), merged in Linux-6.5-rc1 changes the calling ABI in a way
> that is incompatible with the current code for the PS3's LV1 hypervisor
> calls.
>
> This change just adds the line '# CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2 is not
> set'
> to the ps3_defconfig file so that the PPC64_ELF_ABI_V1 is used.
>
> Fixes run time errors like these:
>
> BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000000
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000047cf0
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> Call Trace:
> [c0000000023039e0] [c00000000100ebfc] ps3_create_spu+0xc4/0x2b0 (unreliable)
> [c000000002303ab0] [c00000000100d4c4] create_spu+0xcc/0x3c4
> [c000000002303b40] [c00000000100eae4] ps3_enumerate_spus+0xa4/0xf8
>
> The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52665 to this issue.
IMHO this doesn't warrant a CVE. The crash mentioned above happens at
boot, so the system is not vulnerable it's just broken :)
cheers
