CVE-2023-53755

dmaengine: ptdma: check for null desc before calling pt_cmd_callback

published December 8, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

dmaengine: ptdma: check for null desc before calling pt_cmd_callback

Resolves a panic that can occur on AMD systems, typically during host

shutdown, after the PTDMA driver had been exercised. The issue was

the pt_issue_pending() function is mistakenly assuming that there will

be at least one descriptor in the Submitted queue when the function

is called. However, it is possible that both the Submitted and Issued

queues could be empty, which could result in pt_cmd_callback() being

mistakenly called with a NULL pointer.

Ref: Bugzilla Bug 216856.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
Published
2025-12-08T01:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 DEC 01:19Z
    dmaengine: ptdma: check for null desc before calling pt_cmd_callback
    cvelistv5