CVE-2023-54137
Published: Dec 24, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak Fix an information leak where an uninitialized hole in struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration on the stack is exposed to userspace. The definition of struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration contains a hole as shown in this pahole(1) output: struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration { struct vfio_info_cap_header header; /* 0 8 */ __u32 flags; /* 8 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ __u64 pgsize_bitmap; /* 16 8 */ __u64 max_dirty_bitmap_size; /* 24 8 */ /* size: 32, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */ /* sum members: 28, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */ /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */ }; The cap_mig variable is filled in without initializing the hole: static int vfio_iommu_migration_build_caps(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, struct vfio_info_cap *caps) { struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration cap_mig; cap_mig.header.id = VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1_INFO_CAP_MIGRATION; cap_mig.header.version = 1; cap_mig.flags = 0; /* support minimum pgsize */ cap_mig.pgsize_bitmap = (size_t)1 << __ffs(iommu->pgsize_bitmap); cap_mig.max_dirty_bitmap_size = DIRTY_BITMAP_SIZE_MAX; return vfio_info_add_capability(caps, &cap_mig.header, sizeof(cap_mig)); } The structure is then copied to a temporary location on the heap. At this point it's already too late and ioctl(VFIO_IOMMU_GET_INFO) copies it to userspace later: int vfio_info_add_capability(struct vfio_info_cap *caps, struct vfio_info_cap_header *cap, size_t size) { struct vfio_info_cap_header *header; header = vfio_info_cap_add(caps, size, cap->id, cap->version); if (IS_ERR(header)) return PTR_ERR(header); memcpy(header + 1, cap + 1, size - sizeof(*header)); return 0; } This issue was found by code inspection.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 - < ad83d83dd891244de0d07678b257dc976db7c132affected ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 - < 13fd667db999bffb557c5de7adb3c14f1713dd51affected ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 - < f6f300ecc196d243c02adeb9ee0c62c677c24bfbaffected ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 - < cbac29a1caa49a34e131394e1f4d924a76d8b0c9affected ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 - < 1b5feb8497cdb5b9962db2700814bffbc030fb4a+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.8unaffected 0 - < 5.8unaffected 5.10.195 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.132 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.53 - <= 6.1.*+3 more versions |
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