CVE-2023-54137

vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak

Fix an information leak where an uninitialized hole in struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration on the stack is exposed to userspace.

The definition of struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration contains a hole as shown in this pahole(1) output:

struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration { struct vfio_info_cap_header header; /* 0 8 */ __u32 flags; /* 8 4 */

/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

__u64 pgsize_bitmap; /* 16 8 */ __u64 max_dirty_bitmap_size; /* 24 8 */

/* size: 32, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */ /* sum members: 28, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */ /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */ };

The cap_mig variable is filled in without initializing the hole:

static int vfio_iommu_migration_build_caps(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, struct vfio_info_cap *caps) { struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration cap_mig;

cap_mig.header.id = VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1_INFO_CAP_MIGRATION; cap_mig.header.version = 1;

cap_mig.flags = 0; /* support minimum pgsize */ cap_mig.pgsize_bitmap = (size_t)1 << __ffs(iommu->pgsize_bitmap); cap_mig.max_dirty_bitmap_size = DIRTY_BITMAP_SIZE_MAX;

return vfio_info_add_capability(caps, &cap_mig.header, sizeof(cap_mig)); }

The structure is then copied to a temporary location on the heap. At this point it's already too late and ioctl(VFIO_IOMMU_GET_INFO) copies it to userspace later:

int vfio_info_add_capability(struct vfio_info_cap *caps, struct vfio_info_cap_header *cap, size_t size) { struct vfio_info_cap_header *header;

header = vfio_info_cap_add(caps, size, cap->id, cap->version); if (IS_ERR(header)) return PTR_ERR(header);

memcpy(header + 1, cap + 1, size - sizeof(*header));

return 0; }

This issue was found by code inspection.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 to before ad83d83dd891244de0d07678b257dc976db7c132Affected
  • ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 to before 13fd667db999bffb557c5de7adb3c14f1713dd51Affected
  • ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 to before f6f300ecc196d243c02adeb9ee0c62c677c24bfbAffected
  • ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 to before cbac29a1caa49a34e131394e1f4d924a76d8b0c9Affected
  • ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 to before 1b5feb8497cdb5b9962db2700814bffbc030fb4aAffected
  • ad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 to before cd24e2a60af633f157d7e59c0a6dba64f131c0b1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 5.10.195 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.132 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.53 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.16 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5.3 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6 and laterNot affected

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