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CVE-2023-53171

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2023
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec() When a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change, but it gets a new mm with locked_vm=0, and loses the count from existing dma mappings. If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, locked_vm underflows to a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with ENOMEM in __account_locked_vm. To avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped. Use that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved task's mm, which may have changed. If the saved mm is dead, do nothing. locked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336affectedgit5a271242716846cc016736fb76be2b40ee49b0c3UnavailableNone listed
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336affectedgiteafb81c50da899dd80b340c841277acc4a1945b7UnavailableNone listed
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336affectedgita6b2aabe664098d5cf877ae0fd96459464a30e17UnavailableNone listed
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336affectedgitb0790dff0760b7734cf0961f497ad64628ca550bUnavailableNone listed
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336affectedgit046eca5018f8a5dd1dc2cedf87fb5843b9ea3026UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3.6affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver3.6UnavailableNone listed
5.10.173unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.99unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.16unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.2.3unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.2.*None listed
6.3unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed