CVE-2023-53171

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53171
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53171.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53171
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-15T14:04:04.544Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:32:59.910231Z
Summary
vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()
Details

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

vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()

When a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change, but it gets a new mm with lockedvm=0, and loses the count from existing dma mappings. If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, lockedvm underflows to a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with ENOMEM in __accountlockedvm.

To avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped. Use that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved task's mm, which may have changed. If the saved mm is dead, do nothing.

locked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53171.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336
Fixed
5a271242716846cc016736fb76be2b40ee49b0c3
Fixed
eafb81c50da899dd80b340c841277acc4a1945b7
Fixed
a6b2aabe664098d5cf877ae0fd96459464a30e17
Fixed
b0790dff0760b7734cf0961f497ad64628ca550b
Fixed
046eca5018f8a5dd1dc2cedf87fb5843b9ea3026

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53171.json"