CVE-2023-53552

drm/i915: mark requests for GuC virtual engines to avoid use-after-free

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 4, 2025 at 03:16 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: mark requests for GuC virtual engines to avoid use-after-free References to i915_requests may be trapped by userspace inside a sync_file or dmabuf (dma-resv) and held indefinitely across different proceses. To counter-act the memory leaks, we try to not to keep references from the request past their completion. On the other side on fence release we need to know if rq->engine is valid and points to hw engine (true for non-virtual requests). To make it possible extra bit has been added to rq->execution_mask, for marking virtual engines. (cherry picked from commit 280410677af763f3871b93e794a199cfcf6fb580)

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.0 ≤ v < 6.1.546.0 ≤ v < 6.5.46.0 ≤ v < 6.66.2 ≤ v < 6.5.46.0bcb9aa45d5a0e11ef91245330c53cde214d15e8d
Vendor states this is fixed in 5eefc5307c983b59344a4cb89009819f580c84fa (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7fb464d52fa41c31a6fd1ad82888e67c65935d94 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8017a27cec32eac8c8f9430b0a3055840136b856 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.54 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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