CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53273
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-16
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Drivers: vmbus: Check for channel allocation before looking up relids
relid2channel() assumes vmbus channel array to be allocated when called.
However, in cases such as kdump/kexec, not all relids will be reset by the host.
When the second kernel boots and if the guest receives a vmbus interrupt during
vmbus driver initialization before vmbus_connect() is called, before it finishes,
or if it fails, the vmbus interrupt service routine is called which in turn calls
relid2channel() and can cause a null pointer dereference.
Print a warning and error out in relid2channel() for a channel id that's invalid
in the second kernel.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 5.10.178)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.107)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.11)
• linux linux kernel 6.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/176c6b4889195fbe7016d9401175b48c5c9edf68 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1eb65c8687316c65140b48fad27133d583178e15 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c3f0ae5435fd20bb1e3a8308488aa6ac33151ee Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c44f3446a0565139b7d8abc78f58b86c398123 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c373e49fbb87aa177819866ed9194ebc5414dfd6 Patch