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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53647"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:19:45.083Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:49:12.279Z"
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-2023-53647"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53647.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53647"
title: "Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't dereference ACPI root object handle"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nDrivers: hv: vmbus: Don't dereference ACPI root object handle\n\nSince the commit referenced in the Fixes: tag below the VMBus client driver\nis walking the ACPI namespace up from the VMBus ACPI device to the ACPI\nnamespace root object trying to find Hyper-V MMIO ranges.\n\nHowever, if it is not able to find them it ends trying to walk resources of\nthe ACPI namespace root object itself.\nThis object has all-ones handle, which causes a NULL pointer dereference\nin the ACPI code (from dereferencing this pointer with an offset).\n\nThis in turn causes an oops on boot with VMBus host implementations that do\nnot provide Hyper-V MMIO ranges in their VMBus ACPI device or its\nancestors.\nThe QEMU VMBus implementation is an example of such implementation.\n\nI guess providing these ranges is optional, since all tested Windows\nversions seem to be able to use VMBus devices without them.\n\nFix this by explicitly terminating the lookup at the ACPI namespace root\nobject.\n\nNote that Linux guests under KVM/QEMU do not use the Hyper-V PV interface\nby default - they only do so if the KVM PV interface is missing or\ndisabled.\n\nExample stack trace of such oops:\n[ 3.710827] ? __die+0x1f/0x60\n[ 3.715030] ? page_fault_oops+0x159/0x460\n[ 3.716008] ? exc_page_fault+0x73/0x170\n[ 3.716959] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n[ 3.717957] ? acpi_ns_lookup+0x7a/0x4b0\n[ 3.718898] ? acpi_ns_internalize_name+0x79/0xc0\n[ 3.720018] acpi_ns_get_node_unlocked+0xb5/0xe0\n[ 3.721120] ? acpi_ns_check_object_type+0xfe/0x200\n[ 3.722285] ? acpi_rs_convert_aml_to_resource+0x37/0x6e0\n[ 3.723559] ? down_timeout+0x3a/0x60\n[ 3.724455] ? acpi_ns_get_node+0x3a/0x60\n[ 3.725412] acpi_ns_get_node+0x3a/0x60\n[ 3.726335] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x1c3/0x2c0\n[ 3.727295] acpi_ut_evaluate_object+0x64/0x1b0\n[ 3.728400] acpi_rs_get_method_data+0x2b/0x70\n[ 3.729476] ? vmbus_platform_driver_probe+0x1d0/0x1d0 [hv_vmbus]\n[ 3.730940] ? vmbus_platform_driver_probe+0x1d0/0x1d0 [hv_vmbus]\n[ 3.732411] acpi_walk_resources+0x78/0xd0\n[ 3.733398] vmbus_platform_driver_probe+0x9f/0x1d0 [hv_vmbus]\n[ 3.734802] platform_probe+0x3d/0x90\n[ 3.735684] really_probe+0x19b/0x400\n[ 3.736570] ? __device_attach_driver+0x100/0x100\n[ 3.737697] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160\n[ 3.738746] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90\n[ 3.739743] __driver_attach+0xc2/0x1b0\n[ 3.740671] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0\n[ 3.741601] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210\n[ 3.742527] driver_register+0x55/0xf0\n[ 3.744412] ? 0xffffffffc039a000\n[ 3.745207] hv_acpi_init+0x3c/0x1000 [hv_vmbus]"
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