# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52559"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:59:33.301Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:29:08.462Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52559"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52559.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52559"
title: "iommu/vt-d: Avoid memory allocation in iommu_suspend()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/vt-d: Avoid memory allocation in iommu_suspend()\n\nThe iommu_suspend() syscore suspend callback is invoked with IRQ disabled.\nAllocating memory with the GFP_KERNEL flag may re-enable IRQs during\nthe suspend callback, which can cause intermittent suspend/hibernation\nproblems with the following kernel traces:\n\nCalling iommu_suspend+0x0/0x1d0\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 15 at kernel/time/timekeeping.c:868 ktime_get+0x9b/0xb0\n...\nCPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: rcu_preempt Tainted: G     U      E      6.3-intel #r1\nRIP: 0010:ktime_get+0x9b/0xb0\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n tick_sched_timer+0x22/0x90\n ? __pfx_tick_sched_timer+0x10/0x10\n __hrtimer_run_queues+0x111/0x2b0\n hrtimer_interrupt+0xfa/0x230\n __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x63/0x140\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xa0\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x30\n...\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nInterrupts enabled after iommu_suspend+0x0/0x1d0\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 27420 at drivers/base/syscore.c:68 syscore_suspend+0x147/0x270\nCPU: 0 PID: 27420 Comm: rtcwake Tainted: G     U  W   E      6.3-intel #r1\nRIP: 0010:syscore_suspend+0x147/0x270\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n hibernation_snapshot+0x25b/0x670\n hibernate+0xcd/0x390\n state_store+0xcf/0xe0\n kobj_attr_store+0x13/0x30\n sysfs_kf_write+0x3f/0x50\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x200\n vfs_write+0x1fd/0x3c0\n ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0\n __x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nGiven that only 4 words memory is needed, avoid the memory allocation in\niommu_suspend()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"33e07157105e472b746b70b3ed4197c57c43ab68","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29298c85a81abdc512e87537515ed4b1a9601d0e"},{"version":"33e07157105e472b746b70b3ed4197c57c43ab68","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c12ef025add77ca3a0902e8719d552b6d47b4282"},{"version":"33e07157105e472b746b70b3ed4197c57c43ab68","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"496c591f0b389eb782f36d9d4c2564b9a865eed0"},{"version":"33e07157105e472b746b70b3ed4197c57c43ab68","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59df44bfb0ca4c3ee1f1c3c5d0ee8e314844799e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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