Bug 2395397 (CVE-2023-53259) - CVE-2023-53259 kernel: Linux kernel VMCI: Denial of Service via GPF
Summary: CVE-2023-53259 kernel: Linux kernel VMCI: Denial of Service via GPF
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53259
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-15 15:11 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-14 14:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:11:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

VMCI: check context->notify_page after call to get_user_pages_fast() to avoid GPF

The call to get_user_pages_fast() in vmci_host_setup_notify() can return
NULL context->notify_page causing a GPF. To avoid GPF check if
context->notify_page == NULL and return error if so.

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
    0xe0009d1000000060: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0005088000000300-
    0x0005088000000307]
CPU: 2 PID: 26180 Comm: repro_34802241 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4 #1
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module+el8.6.0 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:vmci_ctx_check_signal_notify+0x91/0xe0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x362/0x1f40
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a1/0x230
 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd


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