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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-54007" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:41.281Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:53:29.294Z" 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-2023-54007" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54007.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54007" title: "vmci_host: fix a race condition in vmci_host_poll() causing GPF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvmci_host: fix a race condition in vmci_host_poll() causing GPF\n\nDuring fuzzing, a general protection fault is observed in\nvmci_host_poll().\n\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000019: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000c8-0x00000000000000cf]\nRIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xf3/0x5e00 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4926\n\u003c- omitting registers -\u003e\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n lock_acquire+0x1a4/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5672\n __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]\n _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb3/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162\n add_wait_queue+0x3d/0x260 kernel/sched/wait.c:22\n poll_wait include/linux/poll.h:49 [inline]\n vmci_host_poll+0xf8/0x2b0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c:174\n vfs_poll include/linux/poll.h:88 [inline]\n do_pollfd fs/select.c:873 [inline]\n do_poll fs/select.c:921 [inline]\n do_sys_poll+0xc7c/0x1aa0 fs/select.c:1015\n __do_sys_ppoll fs/select.c:1121 [inline]\n __se_sys_ppoll+0x2cc/0x330 fs/select.c:1101\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x4e/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nExample thread interleaving that causes the general protection fault\nis as follows:\n\nCPU1 (vmci_host_poll) CPU2 (vmci_host_do_init_context)\n----- -----\n// Read uninitialized context\ncontext = vmci_host_dev-\u003econtext;\n // Initialize context\n vmci_host_dev-\u003econtext = vmci_ctx_create();\n vmci_host_dev-\u003ect_type = VMCIOBJ_CONTEXT;\n\nif (vmci_host_dev-\u003ect_type == VMCIOBJ_CONTEXT) {\n // Dereferencing the wrong pointer\n poll_wait(..., &context-\u003ehost_context);\n}\n\nIn this scenario, vmci_host_poll() reads vmci_host_dev-\u003econtext first,\nand then reads vmci_host_dev-\u003ect_type to check that\nvmci_host_dev-\u003econtext is initialized. However, since these two reads\nare not atomically executed, there is a chance of a race condition as\ndescribed above.\n\nTo fix this race condition, read vmci_host_dev-\u003econtext after checking\nthe value of vmci_host_dev-\u003ect_type so that vmci_host_poll() always\nreads an initialized context." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2053e93ac15519ed1f1fe6eba79a33a4963be4a3"},{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca0f4ad2b7a36c799213ef0a213eb977a51e03dc"},{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85b4aa4eb2e3a0da111fd0a1cdbf00f986ac6b6b"},{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"770d30b1355c6c8879973dd054fca9168def182c"},{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d22b2a35729cb1de311cb650cd67518a24e13fc9"},{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67e35824f861a05b44b19d38e16a83f653bd9d92"},{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab64bd32b9fac27ff4737d63711b9db5e5462448"},{"version":"8bf503991f87e32ea42a7bd69b79ba084fddc5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae13381da5ff0e8e084c0323c3cc0a945e43e9c7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"4.19.283","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.243","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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