Bug 2396407 (CVE-2023-53387)

Summary: CVE-2023-53387 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in UFS subsystem
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Universal Flash Storage (UFS) subsystem. A local attacker with low privileges could trigger a vulnerability during the handling of UFS device management command timeouts. If a command times out and its doorbell fails to clear, a subsequent completion can lead to a use-after-free condition on a stack-allocated structure. This can result in a system crash, causing a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 14:03:20 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: ufs: core: Fix device management cmd timeout flow

In the UFS error handling flow, the host will send a device management cmd
(NOP OUT) to the device for link recovery. If this cmd times out and
clearing the doorbell fails, ufshcd_wait_for_dev_cmd() will do nothing and
return. hba->dev_cmd.complete struct is not set to NULL.

When this happens, if cmd has been completed by device, then we will call
complete() in __ufshcd_transfer_req_compl(). Because the complete struct is
allocated on the stack, the following crash will occur:

  ipanic_die+0x24/0x38 [mrdump]
  die+0x344/0x748
  arm64_notify_die+0x44/0x104
  do_debug_exception+0x104/0x1e0
  el1_dbg+0x38/0x54
  el1_sync_handler+0x40/0x88
  el1_sync+0x8c/0x140
  queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x2e4/0x3c0
  __ufshcd_transfer_req_compl+0x3b0/0x1164
  ufshcd_trc_handler+0x15c/0x308
  ufshcd_host_reset_and_restore+0x54/0x260
  ufshcd_reset_and_restore+0x28c/0x57c
  ufshcd_err_handler+0xeb8/0x1b6c
  process_one_work+0x288/0x964
  worker_thread+0x4bc/0xc7c
  kthread+0x15c/0x264
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
Comment 1 Keith Grant 2025-09-18 16:58:10 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091857-CVE-2023-53387-1fb7@gregkh/T