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    "id": "CVE-2023-53487",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53487",
    "idYear": 2023,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-10-01T11:42:54.747Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T19:45:56.368Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects\n\nWith hardened usercopy enabled (CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y), using the\n/proc/powerpc/rtas/firmware_update interface to prepare a system\nfirmware update yields a BUG():\n\n  kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!\n  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]\n  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries\n  Modules linked in:\n  CPU: 0 PID: 2232 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #2\n  Hardware name: IBM,8408-E8E POWER8E (raw) 0x4b0201 0xf000004 of:IBM,FW860.50 (SV860_146) hv:phyp pSeries\n  NIP:  c0000000005991d0 LR: c0000000005991cc CTR: 0000000000000000\n  REGS: c0000000148c76a0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.5.0-rc3+)\n  MSR:  8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 24002242  XER: 0000000c\n  CFAR: c0000000001fbd34 IRQMASK: 0\n  [ ... GPRs omitted ... ]\n  NIP usercopy_abort+0xa0/0xb0\n  LR  usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0\n  Call Trace:\n    usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0 (unreliable)\n    __check_heap_object+0x1b4/0x1d0\n    __check_object_size+0x2d0/0x380\n    rtas_flash_write+0xe4/0x250\n    proc_reg_write+0xfc/0x160\n    vfs_write+0xfc/0x4e0\n    ksys_write+0x90/0x160\n    system_call_exception+0x178/0x320\n    system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4\n\nThe blocks of the firmware image are copied directly from user memory\nto objects allocated from flash_block_cache, so flash_block_cache must\nbe created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy() to mark it safe for user\naccess.\n\n[mpe: Trim and indent oops]",
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