CVE-2023-53493

accel/qaic: tighten bounds checking in decode_message()

State
Published
Severity
8.4 High
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Oct 1, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

accel/qaic: tighten bounds checking in decode_message()

Copy the bounds checking from encode_message() to decode_message().

This patch addresses the following concerns. Ensure that there is enough space for at least one header so that we don't have a negative size later.

if (msg_hdr_len < sizeof(*trans_hdr))

Ensure that we have enough space to read the next header from the msg->data.

if (msg_len > msg_hdr_len - sizeof(*trans_hdr)) return -EINVAL;

Check that the trans_hdr->len is not below the minimum size:

if (hdr_len < sizeof(*trans_hdr))

This minimum check ensures that we don't corrupt memory in decode_passthrough() when we do.

memcpy(out_trans->data, in_trans->data, len - sizeof(in_trans->hdr));

And finally, use size_add() to prevent an integer overflow:

if (size_add(msg_len, hdr_len) > msg_hdr_len)

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 129776ac2e38231fa9c02ce20e116c99de291666 to before 57d14cb3bae4619ce2fb5235cb318c3d5d8f53fdAffected
  • 129776ac2e38231fa9c02ce20e116c99de291666 to before 51b56382ed2a2b03347372272362b3baa623ed1eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.4.7 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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