CVE-2023-52790
kernel: swiotlb: fix out-of-bounds TLB allocations with CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 21, 2024
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
swiotlb: fix out-of-bounds TLB allocations with CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC
Limit the free list length to the size of the IO TLB. Transient pool can be smaller than IO_TLB_SEGSIZE, but the free list is initialized with the assumption that the total number of slots is a multiple of IO_TLB_SEGSIZE. As a result, swiotlb_area_find_slots() may allocate slots past the end of a transient IO TLB buffer.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read