CVE-2023-53552CWE-416

CVE-2023-53552

High · published October 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

drm/i915: mark requests for GuC virtual engines to avoid use-after-free

References to i915_requests may be trapped by userspace inside a

sync_file or dmabuf (dma-resv) and held indefinitely across different

proceses. To counter-act the memory leaks, we try to not to keep

references from the request past their completion.

On the other side on fence release we need to know if rq->engine

is valid and points to hw engine (true for non-virtual requests).

To make it possible extra bit has been added to rq->execution_mask,

for marking virtual engines.

(cherry picked from commit 280410677af763f3871b93e794a199cfcf6fb580)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00166 · 5.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2025-10-04T20:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.0, < 6.1.546.1.54
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.5.46.5.4
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:16Z
    drm/i915: mark requests for GuC virtual engines to avoid use-after-free
    cvelistv5