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CVE-2023-53438

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

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CNA source text (English)

x86/MCE: Always save CS register on AMD Zen IF Poison errors

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/MCE: Always save CS register on AMD Zen IF Poison errors The Instruction Fetch (IF) units on current AMD Zen-based systems do not guarantee a synchronous #MC is delivered for poison consumption errors. Therefore, MCG_STATUS[EIPV|RIPV] will not be set. However, the microarchitecture does guarantee that the exception is delivered within the same context. In other words, the exact rIP is not known, but the context is known to not have changed. There is no architecturally-defined method to determine this behavior. The Code Segment (CS) register is always valid on such IF unit poison errors regardless of the value of MCG_STATUS[EIPV|RIPV]. Add a quirk to save the CS register for poison consumption from the IF unit banks. This is needed to properly determine the context of the error. Otherwise, the severity grading function will assume the context is IN_KERNEL due to the m->cs value being 0 (the initialized value). This leads to unnecessary kernel panics on data poison errors due to the kernel believing the poison consumption occurred in kernel context.

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)
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgite6e6a5f50f58fadec397b23064b7e4830292863dUnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit6eac3965901489ae114a664a78cd2d1415d1af5cUnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit2e01bdf7203c383e9d8489d9f963c52d6c81e4dbUnavailableNone listed
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2affectedgit4240e2ebe67941ce2c4f5c866c3af4b5ac7a0c67UnavailableNone 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)
2.6.12affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.12UnavailableNone listed
6.1.53unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.4.16unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.4.*None listed
6.5.3unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.5.*None listed
6.6unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed