CVE-2023-52455

iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region

At a glance

Severity
Not available
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region When the bootloader/firmware doesn't setup the framebuffers, their address and size are 0 in "iommu-addresses" property. If IOVA region is reserved with 0 length, then it ends up corrupting the IOVA rbtree with an entry which has pfn_hi < pfn_lo. If we intend to use display driver in kernel without framebuffer then it's causing the display IOMMU mappings to fail as entire valid IOVA space is reserved when address and length are passed as 0. An ideal solution would be firmware removing the "iommu-addresses" property and corresponding "memory-region" if display is not present. But the kernel should be able to handle this by checking for size of IOVA region and skipping the IOVA reservation if size is 0. Also, add a warning if firmware is requesting 0-length IOVA region reservation.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected a5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 < 98b8a550da83cc392a14298c4b3eaaf0332ae6ad ; affected a5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 < 5e23e283910c9f30248732ae0770bcb0c9438abf ; affected a5bf3cfce8cb77d9d24613ab52d520896f83dd48 < bb57f6705960bebeb832142ce9abf43220c3eab1
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.3 ; unaffected 0 < 6.3 ; unaffected 6.6.14 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.2 ≤ 6.7.* ; unaffected 6.8 ≤ *

References

Sources

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