CVE-2023-53501

high
Published 2024-04-30 · Modified 2024-04-30
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/amd/iommu_v2: Fix pasid_state refcount dec hit 0 warning on pasid unbind When unbinding pasid - a race condition exists vs outstanding page faults. To prevent this, the pasid_state object contains a refcount. * set to 1 on pasid bind * incremented on each ppr notification start * decremented on each ppr notification done * decremented on pasid unbind Since refcount_dec assumes that refcount will never reach 0: the current implementation causes the following to be invoked on pasid unbind: REFCOUNT_WARN("decrement hit 0; leaking memory") Fix this issue by changing refcount_dec to refcount_dec_and_test to explicitly handle refcount=1.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53501

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53501.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.55-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed6.5.3-1
debian debiansidfixed6.5.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.5.3-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.