# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53768"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T01:19:31.353Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:15:55.388Z"
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-2023-53768"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53768.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53768"
title: "regmap-irq: Fix out-of-bounds access when allocating config buffers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nregmap-irq: Fix out-of-bounds access when allocating config buffers\n\nWhen allocating the 2D array for handling IRQ type registers in\nregmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode(), the intent is to allocate a matrix\nwith num_config_bases rows and num_config_regs columns.\n\nThis is currently handled by allocating a buffer to hold a pointer for\neach row (i.e. num_config_bases). After that, the logic attempts to\nallocate the memory required to hold the register configuration for\neach row. However, instead of doing this allocation for each row\n(i.e. num_config_bases allocations), the logic erroneously does this\nallocation num_config_regs number of times.\n\nThis scenario can lead to out-of-bounds accesses when num_config_regs\nis greater than num_config_bases. Fix this by updating the terminating\ncondition of the loop that allocates the memory for holding the register\nconfiguration to allocate memory only for each row in the matrix.\n\nAmit Pundir reported a crash that was occurring on his db845c device\ndue to memory corruption (see \"Closes\" tag for Amit's report). The KASAN\nreport below helped narrow it down to this issue:\n\n[   14.033877][    T1] ==================================================================\n[   14.042507][    T1] BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode+0x594/0x1364\n[   14.050796][    T1] Write of size 8 at addr 06ffff8081021850 by task init/1\n\n[   14.242004][    T1] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffffff8081021850\n[   14.242004][    T1]  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8\n[   14.255669][    T1] The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of\n[   14.255669][    T1]  8-byte region [ffffff8081021850, ffffff8081021858)"
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