CVE-2023-54202 (GCVE-0-2023-54202)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:09 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:18
VLAI
Title
drm/i915: fix race condition UAF in i915_perf_add_config_ioctl
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: fix race condition UAF in i915_perf_add_config_ioctl Userspace can guess the id value and try to race oa_config object creation with config remove, resulting in a use-after-free if we dereference the object after unlocking the metrics_lock. For that reason, unlocking the metrics_lock must be done after we are done dereferencing the object. [tursulin: Manually added stable tag.] (cherry picked from commit 49f6f6483b652108bcb73accd0204a464b922395)
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f89823c212246d0671cc51e69894a3df1a743aee , < 6eeb1cba4c9dc47656ea328afa34953c28783d8c (git)
Affected: f89823c212246d0671cc51e69894a3df1a743aee , < 240b1502708858b5e3f10b6dc5ca3f148a322fef (git)
Affected: f89823c212246d0671cc51e69894a3df1a743aee , < 7eb98f5ac551863efe8be810cea1cd5411d677b1 (git)
Affected: f89823c212246d0671cc51e69894a3df1a743aee , < dc30c011469165d57af9adac5baff7d767d20e5c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.108 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.24 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.11 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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