# 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-2023-53171"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:04:04.544Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:38.716Z"
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-2023-53171"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53171.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53171"
title: "vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()\n\nWhen a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change,\nbut it gets a new mm with locked_vm=0, and loses the count from existing\ndma mappings.  If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, locked_vm underflows\nto a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with\nENOMEM in __account_locked_vm.\n\nTo avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped.\nUse that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved\ntask's mm, which may have changed.  If the saved mm is dead, do nothing.\n\nlocked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a271242716846cc016736fb76be2b40ee49b0c3"},{"version":"73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eafb81c50da899dd80b340c841277acc4a1945b7"},{"version":"73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6b2aabe664098d5cf877ae0fd96459464a30e17"},{"version":"73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0790dff0760b7734cf0961f497ad64628ca550b"},{"version":"73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"046eca5018f8a5dd1dc2cedf87fb5843b9ea3026"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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