CVE-2023-53259

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53259
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53259.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53259
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-15T14:46:30.955Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:33:03.634446Z
Summary
VMCI: check context->notify_page after call to get_user_pages_fast() to avoid GPF
Details

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

VMCI: check context->notifypage after call to getuserpagesfast() to avoid GPF

The call to getuserpagesfast() in vmcihostsetupnotify() can return NULL context->notifypage causing a GPF. To avoid GPF check if context->notifypage == NULL and return error if so.

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xe0009d1000000060: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x0005088000000300- 0x0005088000000307] CPU: 2 PID: 26180 Comm: repro34802241 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4 #1 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module+el8.6.0 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:vmcictxchecksignalnotify+0x91/0xe0 Call Trace: <TASK> vmcihostunlockedioctl+0x362/0x1f40 __x64sysioctl+0x1a1/0x230 dosyscall64+0x3a/0x90 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53259.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
a1d88436d53a75e950db15834b3d2f8c0c358fdc
Fixed
b4239bfb260d1e6837766c41a0b241d7670f1402
Fixed
d4198f67e7556b1507f14f60d81a72660e5560e4
Fixed
a3c89e8c69a58f62451c0a75b77fcab25979b897
Fixed
055891397f530f9b1b22be38d7eca8b08382941f
Fixed
91b8e4f61f8f4594ee65368c8d89e6fdc29d3fb1
Fixed
1a726cb47fd204109c767409fa9ca15a96328f14

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53259.json"