CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53171
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()
When a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change,
but it gets a new mm with locked_vm=0, and loses the count from existing
dma mappings. If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, locked_vm underflows
to a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with
ENOMEM in __account_locked_vm.
To avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped.
Use that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved
task's mm, which may have changed. If the saved mm is dead, do nothing.
locked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.6 < 5.10.173)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.99)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.3)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/046eca5018f8a5dd1dc2cedf87fb5843b9ea3026 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a271242716846cc016736fb76be2b40ee49b0c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6b2aabe664098d5cf877ae0fd96459464a30e17 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0790dff0760b7734cf0961f497ad64628ca550b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eafb81c50da899dd80b340c841277acc4a1945b7 Patch