CVE-2023-53816

Updated on 09 Dec 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS score
8.6

Overview

About vulnerability

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

drm/amdkfd: fix potential kgd_mem UAFs

kgd_mem pointers returned by kfd_process_device_translate_handle are only guaranteed to be valid while p->mutex is held. As soon as the mutex is unlocked, another thread can free the BO.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+2 more)

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

drm/amdkfd: fix potential kgd_mem UAFs

kgd_mem pointers returned by kfd_process_device_translate_handle are only guaranteed to be valid while p->mutex is held. As soon as the mutex is unlocked, another thread can free the BO.

Fixes