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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53090" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:55:36.164Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:26.378Z" 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-2023-53090" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53090.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53090" title: "drm/amdkfd: Fix an illegal memory access" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/amdkfd: Fix an illegal memory access\n\nIn the kfd_wait_on_events() function, the kfd_event_waiter structure is\nallocated by alloc_event_waiters(), but the event field of the waiter\nstructure is not initialized; When copy_from_user() fails in the\nkfd_wait_on_events() function, it will enter exception handling to\nrelease the previously allocated memory of the waiter structure;\nDue to the event field of the waiters structure being accessed\nin the free_waiters() function, this results in illegal memory access\nand system crash, here is the crash log:\n\nlocalhost kernel: RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x185/0x1e0\nlocalhost kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffaa53c362bd60 EFLAGS: 00010082\nlocalhost kernel: RAX: ff3d3d6bff4007cb RBX: 0000000000000282 RCX: 00000000002c0000\nlocalhost kernel: RDX: ffff9e855eeacb80 RSI: 000000000000279c RDI: ffffe7088f6a21d0\nlocalhost kernel: RBP: ffffe7088f6a21d0 R08: 00000000002c0000 R09: ffffaa53c362be64\nlocalhost kernel: R10: ffffaa53c362bbd8 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002\nlocalhost kernel: R13: ffff9e7ead15d600 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff9e7ead15d698\nlocalhost kernel: FS: 0000152a3d111700(0000) GS:ffff9e855ee80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nlocalhost kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nlocalhost kernel: CR2: 0000152938000010 CR3: 000000044d7a4000 CR4: 00000000003506e0\nlocalhost kernel: Call Trace:\nlocalhost kernel: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x30/0x40\nlocalhost kernel: remove_wait_queue+0x12/0x50\nlocalhost kernel: kfd_wait_on_events+0x1b6/0x490 [hydcu]\nlocalhost kernel: ? ftrace_graph_caller+0xa0/0xa0\nlocalhost kernel: kfd_ioctl+0x38c/0x4a0 [hydcu]\nlocalhost kernel: ? kfd_ioctl_set_trap_handler+0x70/0x70 [hydcu]\nlocalhost kernel: ? kfd_ioctl_create_queue+0x5a0/0x5a0 [hydcu]\nlocalhost kernel: ? ftrace_graph_caller+0xa0/0xa0\nlocalhost kernel: __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8e/0xd0\nlocalhost kernel: ? syscall_trace_enter.isra.18+0x143/0x1b0\nlocalhost kernel: do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80\nlocalhost kernel: entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9\nlocalhost kernel: RIP: 0033:0x152a4dff68d7\n\nAllocate the structure with kcalloc, and remove redundant 0-initialization\nand a redundant loop condition check." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4a488a7ad71401169cecee75dc94bcce642e2c53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a3fb3b745af0ce46ec2e0c8e507bae45b937334"},{"version":"4a488a7ad71401169cecee75dc94bcce642e2c53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbf5eada4334a96e3a204b2307ff5b14dc380b0b"},{"version":"4a488a7ad71401169cecee75dc94bcce642e2c53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6936525142a015e854d0a23e9ad9ea0a28b3843d"},{"version":"4a488a7ad71401169cecee75dc94bcce642e2c53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fece63b55c5d74cd6f5de51159e2cde37e10555"},{"version":"4a488a7ad71401169cecee75dc94bcce642e2c53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9923e7214a870b312bf61f6a89c7554d0966985"},{"version":"4a488a7ad71401169cecee75dc94bcce642e2c53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61f306f8df0d5559659c5578cf6d95236bcdcb25"},{"version":"4a488a7ad71401169cecee75dc94bcce642e2c53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fc8fff378b2f2039f2a666d9f8c570f4e58352c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"4.19.279","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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