# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53259"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:46:30.955Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:41:19.823Z"
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-2023-53259"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53259.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53259"
title: "VMCI: check context-\u003enotify_page after call to get_user_pages_fast() to avoid GPF"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nVMCI: check context-\u003enotify_page after call to get_user_pages_fast() to avoid GPF\n\nThe call to get_user_pages_fast() in vmci_host_setup_notify() can return\nNULL context-\u003enotify_page causing a GPF. To avoid GPF check if\ncontext-\u003enotify_page == NULL and return error if so.\n\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n    0xe0009d1000000060: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0005088000000300-\n    0x0005088000000307]\nCPU: 2 PID: 26180 Comm: repro_34802241 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4 #1\nHardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module+el8.6.0 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:vmci_ctx_check_signal_notify+0x91/0xe0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x362/0x1f40\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a1/0x230\n do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4239bfb260d1e6837766c41a0b241d7670f1402"},{"version":"a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4198f67e7556b1507f14f60d81a72660e5560e4"},{"version":"a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3c89e8c69a58f62451c0a75b77fcab25979b897"},{"version":"a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"055891397f530f9b1b22be38d7eca8b08382941f"},{"version":"a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91b8e4f61f8f4594ee65368c8d89e6fdc29d3fb1"},{"version":"a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a726cb47fd204109c767409fa9ca15a96328f14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.0"},{"version":"5.4.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.240","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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