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FKIE_CVE-2023-54174

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-30 13:16 - Updated: 2025-12-31 20:43

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio: Fix NULL pointer dereference caused by uninitialized group->iommufd group->iommufd is not initialized for the iommufd_ctx_put() [20018.331541] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [20018.377508] RIP: 0010:iommufd_ctx_put+0x5/0x10 [iommufd] ... [20018.476483] Call Trace: [20018.479214] <TASK> [20018.481555] vfio_group_fops_unl_ioctl+0x506/0x690 [vfio] [20018.487586] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x6a/0xb0 [20018.491773] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xc5/0xe0 [20018.496347] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x90 [20018.500340] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0xb5

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f24eef598ce7cce0bbefe0ec642bcc031d0f528
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d649c34cb916b015fdcb487e51409fcc5caeca8d

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvfio: Fix NULL pointer dereference caused by uninitialized group-\u003eiommufd\n\ngroup-\u003eiommufd is not initialized for the iommufd_ctx_put()\n\n[20018.331541] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n[20018.377508] RIP: 0010:iommufd_ctx_put+0x5/0x10 [iommufd]\n...\n[20018.476483] Call Trace:\n[20018.479214]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[20018.481555]  vfio_group_fops_unl_ioctl+0x506/0x690 [vfio]\n[20018.487586]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x6a/0xb0\n[20018.491773]  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xc5/0xe0\n[20018.496347]  do_syscall_64+0x67/0x90\n[20018.500340]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0xb5"
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  "id": "CVE-2023-54174",
  "lastModified": "2025-12-31T20:43:05.160",
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  "published": "2025-12-30T13:16:05.267",
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CVE-2023-54174 (GCVE-0-2023-54174)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:08 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:08

Title

vfio: Fix NULL pointer dereference caused by uninitialized group->iommufd

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f24eef598ce7cce0…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d649c34cb916b015f…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 9eefba8002c27d65ab52a533fd0611b099b73591 , < 8f24eef598ce7cce0bbefe0ec642bcc031d0f528 (git)
Affected: 9eefba8002c27d65ab52a533fd0611b099b73591 , < d649c34cb916b015fdcb487e51409fcc5caeca8d (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2023-54174 (GCVE-0-2023-54174)

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