CVE-2023-54291 - Vulnerability Details

- vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference

Description

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

vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference

vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity callback can be called
with NULL value as cpu_mask when deleting the vduse
device.

This patch resets virtqueue's IRQ affinity mask value
to set all CPUs instead of dereferencing NULL cpu_mask.

[ 4760.952149] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 4760.959110] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 4760.964247] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 4760.969385] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 4760.971927] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 4760.976112] CPU: 13 PID: 2346 Comm: vdpa Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6+ #4
[ 4760.982291] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0W23H8, BIOS 2.8.1 06/26/2020
[ 4760.989769] RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130
[ 4760.994049] Code: 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4f 08 4c 89 54 17 f0 4c 89 5c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 83 fa 08 72 1b <4c> 8b 06 4c 8b 4c 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66
[ 4761.012793] RSP: 0018:ffffb1d565abb830 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 4761.018020] RAX: ffff9f4bf6b27898 RBX: ffff9f4be23969c0 RCX: ffff9f4bcadf6400
[ 4761.025152] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9f4bf6b27898
[ 4761.032286] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.039416] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000600 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.046549] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: ffffb1d565abbb10
[ 4761.053680] FS: 00007f64c2ec2740(0000) GS:ffff9f635f980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 4761.061765] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 4761.067513] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000001875270006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[ 4761.074645] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.081775] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 4761.088909] PKRU: 55555554
[ 4761.091620] Call Trace:
[ 4761.094074] <TASK>
[ 4761.096180] ? __die+0x1f/0x70
[ 4761.099238] ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4f0
[ 4761.103340] ? exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x180
[ 4761.107265] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 4761.111460] ? memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130
[ 4761.115126] vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity+0x3e/0x50 [vduse]
[ 4761.120533] virtnet_clean_affinity.part.0+0x3d/0x90 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.126635] remove_vq_common+0x1a4/0x250 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.131781] virtnet_remove+0x5d/0x70 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.136580] virtio_dev_remove+0x3a/0x90
[ 4761.140509] device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200
[ 4761.145742] bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130
[ 4761.149755] device_del+0x158/0x3e0
[ 4761.153245] ? kernfs_find_ns+0x35/0xc0
[ 4761.157086] device_unregister+0x13/0x60
[ 4761.161010] unregister_virtio_device+0x11/0x20
[ 4761.165543] device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200
[ 4761.170770] bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130
[ 4761.174782] device_del+0x158/0x3e0
[ 4761.178276] ? __pfx_vdpa_name_match+0x10/0x10 [vdpa]
[ 4761.183336] device_unregister+0x13/0x60
[ 4761.187260] vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_del_set_doit+0x63/0xe0 [vdpa]

Published: 2025-12-30

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Linux

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`28f6288eb63d5979fa6758e64f52e4d55cf184a8`	affected	< f9d46429de2a251e1e4962e1bf86c344d6336562
`28f6288eb63d5979fa6758e64f52e4d55cf184a8`	affected	< f06cf1e1a503169280467d12d2ec89bf2c30ace7

Linux

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`6.4`	affected	—
`0`	unaffected	< 6.4
`6.4.4`	unaffected	≤ 6.4.*
`6.5`	unaffected	≤ *

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00035.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f06cf1e1a503169280467d12d2ec89bf2c30ace7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9d46429de2a251e1e4962e1bf86c344d6336562
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025123029-CVE-2023-54291-2983@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54291
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54291

History

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025123029-CVE-2023-54291-2983@gregkh/T https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54291 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54291
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` threat_severity `Low`

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity callback can be called with NULL value as cpu_mask when deleting the vduse device. This patch resets virtqueue's IRQ affinity mask value to set all CPUs instead of dereferencing NULL cpu_mask. [ 4760.952149] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 4760.959110] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 4760.964247] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 4760.969385] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 4760.971927] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 4760.976112] CPU: 13 PID: 2346 Comm: vdpa Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6+ #4 [ 4760.982291] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0W23H8, BIOS 2.8.1 06/26/2020 [ 4760.989769] RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130 [ 4760.994049] Code: 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4f 08 4c 89 54 17 f0 4c 89 5c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 83 fa 08 72 1b <4c> 8b 06 4c 8b 4c 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 [ 4761.012793] RSP: 0018:ffffb1d565abb830 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4761.018020] RAX: ffff9f4bf6b27898 RBX: ffff9f4be23969c0 RCX: ffff9f4bcadf6400 [ 4761.025152] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9f4bf6b27898 [ 4761.032286] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4761.039416] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000600 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 4761.046549] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: ffffb1d565abbb10 [ 4761.053680] FS: 00007f64c2ec2740(0000) GS:ffff9f635f980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4761.061765] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4761.067513] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000001875270006 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [ 4761.074645] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 4761.081775] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 4761.088909] PKRU: 55555554 [ 4761.091620] Call Trace: [ 4761.094074] <TASK> [ 4761.096180] ? __die+0x1f/0x70 [ 4761.099238] ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4f0 [ 4761.103340] ? exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x180 [ 4761.107265] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 [ 4761.111460] ? memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130 [ 4761.115126] vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity+0x3e/0x50 [vduse] [ 4761.120533] virtnet_clean_affinity.part.0+0x3d/0x90 [virtio_net] [ 4761.126635] remove_vq_common+0x1a4/0x250 [virtio_net] [ 4761.131781] virtnet_remove+0x5d/0x70 [virtio_net] [ 4761.136580] virtio_dev_remove+0x3a/0x90 [ 4761.140509] device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200 [ 4761.145742] bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130 [ 4761.149755] device_del+0x158/0x3e0 [ 4761.153245] ? kernfs_find_ns+0x35/0xc0 [ 4761.157086] device_unregister+0x13/0x60 [ 4761.161010] unregister_virtio_device+0x11/0x20 [ 4761.165543] device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200 [ 4761.170770] bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130 [ 4761.174782] device_del+0x158/0x3e0 [ 4761.178276] ? __pfx_vdpa_name_match+0x10/0x10 [vdpa] [ 4761.183336] device_unregister+0x13/0x60 [ 4761.187260] vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_del_set_doit+0x63/0xe0 [vdpa]
Title		vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f06cf1e1a503169280467d12d2ec89bf2c30ace7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9d46429de2a251e1e4962e1bf86c344d6336562

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Linux Linux Kernel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-12-30T12:23:29.754Z

Updated: 2026-05-11T19:59:07.275Z

Reserved: 2025-12-30T12:06:44.527Z

Link: CVE-2023-54291

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-12-30T13:16:18.170

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2023-54291

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-12-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-54291 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

Tracking

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

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