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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52973" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:12.756Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:12:11.113Z" 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-2023-52973" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52973.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52973" title: "vc_screen: move load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_read() to avoid UAF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvc_screen: move load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_read() to avoid UAF\n\nAfter a call to console_unlock() in vcs_read() the vc_data struct can be\nfreed by vc_deallocate(). Because of that, the struct vc_data pointer\nload must be done at the top of while loop in vcs_read() to avoid a UAF\nwhen vcs_size() is called.\n\nSyzkaller reported a UAF in vcs_size().\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff8881137479a8 by task 4a005ed81e27e65/1537\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 1537 Comm: 4a005ed81e27e65 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5 #1\nHardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n__asan_report_load4_noabort (mm/kasan/report_generic.c:350)\nvcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)\nvcs_read (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:415)\nvfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468 fs/read_write.c:450)\n...\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 1191:\n...\nkmalloc_trace (mm/slab_common.c:1069)\nvc_allocate (./include/linux/slab.h:580 ./include/linux/slab.h:720\n drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1128 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1108)\ncon_install (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3383)\ntty_init_dev (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1301 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1413\n drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1390)\ntty_open (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2080 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2126)\nchrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:415)\ndo_dentry_open (fs/open.c:883)\nvfs_open (fs/open.c:1014)\n...\n\nFreed by task 1548:\n...\nkfree (mm/slab_common.c:1021)\nvc_port_destruct (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1094)\ntty_port_destructor (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:296)\ntty_port_put (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:312)\nvt_disallocate_all (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:662 (discriminator 2))\nvt_ioctl (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:903)\ntty_ioctl (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2776)\n...\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888113747800\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024\nThe buggy address is located 424 bytes inside of\n 1024-byte region [ffff888113747800, ffff888113747c00)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage:00000000b3fe6c7c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000\n index:0x0 pfn:0x113740\nhead:00000000b3fe6c7c order:3 compound_mapcount:0 subpages_mapcount:0\n compound_pincount:0\nanon flags: 0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)\nraw: 0017ffffc0010200 ffff888100042dc0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001\nraw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000\npage dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n ffff888113747880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n ffff888113747900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n\u003e ffff888113747980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n ^\n ffff888113747a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n ffff888113747a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n==================================================================\nDisabling lock debugging due to kernel taint" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ac751efa6a0d70f2c9daef5c7e3a92270f5c2dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af79ea9a2443016f64d8fd8d72020cc874f0e066"},{"version":"ac751efa6a0d70f2c9daef5c7e3a92270f5c2dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6332f52f44b9776568bf3c0b714ddfb0bb175e78"},{"version":"ac751efa6a0d70f2c9daef5c7e3a92270f5c2dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0332cbf53dad06a22189cc341391237f4ea6d9f"},{"version":"ac751efa6a0d70f2c9daef5c7e3a92270f5c2dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55515d7d8743b71b80bfe68e89eb9d92630626ab"},{"version":"ac751efa6a0d70f2c9daef5c7e3a92270f5c2dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc9e27f3ba083534b8bbf72ab0f5c810ffdc7d18"},{"version":"ac751efa6a0d70f2c9daef5c7e3a92270f5c2dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8506f16aae9daf354e3732bcfd447e2a97f023df"},{"version":"ac751efa6a0d70f2c9daef5c7e3a92270f5c2dff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"226fae124b2dac217ea5436060d623ff3385bc34"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.38","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.38"},{"version":"4.14.329","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.273","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.232","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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