CVE-2023-53259

HIGH

Linux Kernel 4.0-5.4.296 - Out-of-bounds Read in VMCI Notify Page Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (16)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
Linux/Linux < 4.0
Linux/Linux 4.0
Linux/Linux 5.10.240 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.99 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.4.296 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.16 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.3 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux 6.3
Linux/Linux a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc - 055891397f530f9b1b22be38d7eca8b08382941f
... and 6 more
Published Sep 15, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026