CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53273

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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