CVE-2023-53816 (GCVE-0-2023-53816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:01 – Updated: 2025-12-09 00:01
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Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5045360f3bb62ccd4f87202e33489f71f8bbc3fc (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5ca14fb5552ac13a2402d306c0bd2379a71610ff (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 9da050b0d9e04439d225a2ec3044af70cdfb3933 (git)
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    Linux Linux Unaffected: 6.1.23 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.10 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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