CVE-2023-52455

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.3-6.6.13 - Denial of Service via Zero-Length IOVA Region Reservation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region When the bootloader/firmware doesn't setup the framebuffers, their address and size are 0 in "iommu-addresses" property. If IOVA region is reserved with 0 length, then it ends up corrupting the IOVA rbtree with an entry which has pfn_hi < pfn_lo. If we intend to use display driver in kernel without framebuffer then it's causing the display IOMMU mappings to fail as entire valid IOVA space is reserved when address and length are passed as 0. An ideal solution would be firmware removing the "iommu-addresses" property and corresponding "memory-region" if display is not present. But the kernel should be able to handle this by checking for size of IOVA region and skipping the IOVA reservation if size is 0. Also, add a warning if firmware is requesting 0-length IOVA region reservation.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 6.3.0 - 6.6.14linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.2linux
Linux/Linux < 6.3
Linux/Linux 6.3
Linux/Linux 6.6.14 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.7.2 - 6.7.*
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux a5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 - 5e23e283910c9f30248732ae0770bcb0c9438abf
Linux/Linux a5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 - 98b8a550da83cc392a14298c4b3eaaf0332ae6ad
Linux/Linux a5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 - bb57f6705960bebeb832142ce9abf43220c3eab1
... and 1 more
Published Feb 23, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026