CVE-2023-53259
Published: Sep 15, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: check context->notify_page after call to get_user_pages_fast() to avoid GPF The call to get_user_pages_fast() in vmci_host_setup_notify() can return NULL context->notify_page causing a GPF. To avoid GPF check if context->notify_page == NULL and return error if so. general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xe0009d1000000060: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0005088000000300- 0x0005088000000307] CPU: 2 PID: 26180 Comm: repro_34802241 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4 #1 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module+el8.6.0 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:vmci_ctx_check_signal_notify+0x91/0xe0 Call Trace: <TASK> vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x362/0x1f40 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a1/0x230 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc - < b4239bfb260d1e6837766c41a0b241d7670f1402affected a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc - < d4198f67e7556b1507f14f60d81a72660e5560e4affected a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc - < a3c89e8c69a58f62451c0a75b77fcab25979b897affected a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc - < 055891397f530f9b1b22be38d7eca8b08382941faffected a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc - < 91b8e4f61f8f4594ee65368c8d89e6fdc29d3fb1+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.0unaffected 0 - < 4.0unaffected 5.4.296 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.240 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.99 - <= 5.15.*+3 more versions |
References
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