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CVE-2023-53171

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CVE-2023-53171

Published: Sep 15, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec() When a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change, but it gets a new mm with locked_vm=0, and loses the count from existing dma mappings. If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, locked_vm underflows to a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with ENOMEM in __account_locked_vm. To avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped. Use that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved task's mm, which may have changed. If the saved mm is dead, do nothing. locked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 - < 5a271242716846cc016736fb76be2b40ee49b0c3
affected
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 - < eafb81c50da899dd80b340c841277acc4a1945b7
affected
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 - < a6b2aabe664098d5cf877ae0fd96459464a30e17
affected
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 - < b0790dff0760b7734cf0961f497ad64628ca550b
affected
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 - < 046eca5018f8a5dd1dc2cedf87fb5843b9ea3026

Linux

Linux

affected
3.6
unaffected
0 - < 3.6
unaffected
5.10.173 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.99 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.16 - <= 6.1.*

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