CVE-2023-54137 — Use of Uninitialized Resource in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 89.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak
Fix an information leak where an uninitialized hole in struct
vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration on the stack is exposed to userspace.
The definition of struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration contains a hole as
shown in this pahole(1) output:
struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration {
struct vfio_info_cap_header header; /* 0 8 */
__u32 flags; /* 8 4 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hol…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxad721705d09c62f0d108a6b4f59867ebfd592c90 — ad83d83dd891244de0d07678b257dc976db7c132+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2023-54137: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak Fix an information leak where an un↗2025-12-24
GHSA▶
GHSA-78pw-r9wg-6p38: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak
Fix an information leak where an↗2025-12-24