CVE-2023-53273
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/09/2025
Last modified:
16/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
Drivers: vmbus: Check for channel allocation before looking up relids<br />
<br />
relid2channel() assumes vmbus channel array to be allocated when called.<br />
However, in cases such as kdump/kexec, not all relids will be reset by the host.<br />
When the second kernel boots and if the guest receives a vmbus interrupt during<br />
vmbus driver initialization before vmbus_connect() is called, before it finishes,<br />
or if it fails, the vmbus interrupt service routine is called which in turn calls<br />
relid2channel() and can cause a null pointer dereference.<br />
<br />
Print a warning and error out in relid2channel() for a channel id that&#39;s invalid<br />
in the second kernel.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/176c6b4889195fbe7016d9401175b48c5c9edf68
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1eb65c8687316c65140b48fad27133d583178e15
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c3f0ae5435fd20bb1e3a8308488aa6ac33151ee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c44f3446a0565139b7d8abc78f58b86c398123
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c373e49fbb87aa177819866ed9194ebc5414dfd6



