CVE-2023-53327

iommufd/selftest: Catch overflow of uptr and length

Medium · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

iommufd/selftest: Catch overflow of uptr and length

syzkaller hits a WARN_ON when trying to have a uptr close to UINTPTR_MAX:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 393 at drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c:403 iommufd_test+0xb19/0x16f0

Modules linked in:

CPU: 1 PID: 393 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.2.0-c9c3395d5e3d #1

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

RIP: 0010:iommufd_test+0xb19/0x16f0

Code: 94 c4 31 ff 44 89 e6 e8 a5 54 17 ff 45 84 e4 0f 85 bb 0b 00 00 41 be fb ff ff ff e8 31 53 17 ff e9 a0 f7 ff ff e8 27 53 17 ff <0f> 0b 41 be 8

RSP: 0018:ffffc90000eabdc0 EFLAGS: 00010246

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8214c487

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88800f5c8000 RDI: 0000000000000002

RBP: ffffc90000eabe48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001

R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000cd2b0000

R13: 00000000cd2af000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc90000eabe68

FS: 00007f94d76d5740(0000) GS:ffff88807dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000020000043 CR3: 0000000006880006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0

PKRU: 55555554

Call Trace:

<TASK>

? write_comp_data+0x2f/0x90

iommufd_fops_ioctl+0x1ef/0x310

__x64_sys_ioctl+0x10e/0x160

? __pfx_iommufd_fops_ioctl+0x10/0x10

do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

Check that the user memory range doesn't overflow.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00146 · 3.6th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T16:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 16:12Z
    iommufd/selftest: Catch overflow of uptr and length
    cvelistv5