CVE-2023-53552

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.0-6.1.54 6.5.4-6.5.* 6.6 - Use-After-Free in i915 Request Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: mark requests for GuC virtual engines to avoid use-after-free References to i915_requests may be trapped by userspace inside a sync_file or dmabuf (dma-resv) and held indefinitely across different proceses. To counter-act the memory leaks, we try to not to keep references from the request past their completion. On the other side on fence release we need to know if rq->engine is valid and points to hw engine (true for non-virtual requests). To make it possible extra bit has been added to rq->execution_mask, for marking virtual engines. (cherry picked from commit 280410677af763f3871b93e794a199cfcf6fb580)

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.8%
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 total

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (9)
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux 6.1.54 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.5.4 - 6.5.*
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux bcb9aa45d5a0e11ef91245330c53cde214d15e8d - 5eefc5307c983b59344a4cb89009819f580c84fa
Linux/Linux bcb9aa45d5a0e11ef91245330c53cde214d15e8d - 7fb464d52fa41c31a6fd1ad82888e67c65935d94
Linux/Linux bcb9aa45d5a0e11ef91245330c53cde214d15e8d - 8017a27cec32eac8c8f9430b0a3055840136b856
linux/linux_kernel 6.0 - 6.1.54
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026