# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53756"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T01:19:17.081Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:04.572Z"
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-2023-53756"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53756.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53756"
title: "KVM: VMX: Fix crash due to uninitialized current_vmcs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: VMX: Fix crash due to uninitialized current_vmcs\n\nKVM enables 'Enlightened VMCS' and 'Enlightened MSR Bitmap' when running as\na nested hypervisor on top of Hyper-V. When MSR bitmap is updated,\nevmcs_touch_msr_bitmap function uses current_vmcs per-cpu variable to mark\nthat the msr bitmap was changed.\n\nvmx_vcpu_create() modifies the msr bitmap via vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr\n-\u003e vmx_msr_bitmap_l01_changed which in the end calls this function. The\nfunction checks for current_vmcs if it is null but the check is\ninsufficient because current_vmcs is not initialized. Because of this, the\ncode might incorrectly write to the structure pointed by current_vmcs value\nleft by another task. Preemption is not disabled, the current task can be\npreempted and moved to another CPU while current_vmcs is accessed multiple\ntimes from evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap() which leads to crash.\n\nThe manipulation of MSR bitmaps by callers happens only for vmcs01 so the\nsolution is to use vmx-\u003evmcs01.vmcs instead of current_vmcs.\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000338\n  PGD 4e1775067 P4D 0\n  Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n  ...\n  RIP: 0010:vmx_msr_bitmap_l01_changed+0x39/0x50 [kvm_intel]\n  ...\n  Call Trace:\n   vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr+0x36/0x260 [kvm_intel]\n   vmx_vcpu_create+0xe6/0x540 [kvm_intel]\n   kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x1d1/0x2e0 [kvm]\n   kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu+0x178/0x430 [kvm]\n   kvm_vm_ioctl+0x53f/0x790 [kvm]\n   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xc0\n   do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ceef7d10dfb6284d512c499292e6daa35ea83f90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6baebcecf09acd19e2bab1c2911dcdba5d48a1dc"},{"version":"ceef7d10dfb6284d512c499292e6daa35ea83f90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e7bc50f97c9855da83f1478f722590defd45ff2"},{"version":"ceef7d10dfb6284d512c499292e6daa35ea83f90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2de2b4d4e007f9add46ea8dc06f781835e3ea9f"},{"version":"ceef7d10dfb6284d512c499292e6daa35ea83f90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ba95cc671c025d0d2a1c7d5e2930f0ff0980cf4"},{"version":"ceef7d10dfb6284d512c499292e6daa35ea83f90","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93827a0a36396f2fd6368a54a020f420c8916e9b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"5.10.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.103","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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