CVE-2023-53273

Drivers: vmbus: Check for channel allocation before looking up relids

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Sep 16, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 16, 2025

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23 to before 176c6b4889195fbe7016d9401175b48c5c9edf68Affected
  • 8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23 to before c373e49fbb87aa177819866ed9194ebc5414dfd6Affected
  • 8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23 to before 8c3f0ae5435fd20bb1e3a8308488aa6ac33151eeAffected
  • 8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23 to before a5c44f3446a0565139b7d8abc78f58b86c398123Affected
  • 8b6a877c060ed6b86878fe66c7c6493a6054cf23 to before 1eb65c8687316c65140b48fad27133d583178e15Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 5.10.178 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.107 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.24 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.11 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

References

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