vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53501): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/amd/iommu_v2: Fix pasid_state refcount dec hit 0 warning on pasid unbind When unbinding pasid - a race condition exists vs outstanding page faults. To prevent this, the pasid_state object contains a refcount. * set to 1 on pasid bind * incremented on each ppr notification start * decremented on each ppr notification done * decremented on pasid unbind Since refcount_dec assumes that refcount will never reach 0: the current implementation causes the following to be invoked on pasid unbind: REFCOUNT_WARN("decrement hit 0; leaking memory") Fix this issue by changing refcount_dec to refcount_dec_and_test to explicitly handle refcount=1.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2023-53501
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-53501
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/534103bcd52ca9c1fecbc70e717b4a538dc4ded8
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13ed255248dfbbb7f23f9170c7a537fb9ca22c73
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/534103bcd52ca9c1fecbc70e717b4a538dc4ded8
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98d86bf32187db27946ca817c2467a5f2f7aa02f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ccc51be3126b25cfe9351dbffde946c925cc28a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a50d60b8f2aff46dd7c7edb4a5835cdc4d432c22
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53501
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