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ghsa-96mj-4fv4-g633

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-09-15 15:31

Modified

2025-09-15 15:31

Details

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

drm/amdgpu: install stub fence into potential unused fence pointers

When using cpu to update page tables, vm update fences are unused. Install stub fence into these fence pointers instead of NULL to avoid NULL dereference when calling dma_fence_wait() on them.

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CVE-2023-53248 (GCVE-0-2023-53248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-15 14:46

Modified

2025-09-16 08:02

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: install stub fence into potential unused fence pointers When using cpu to update page tables, vm update fences are unused. Install stub fence into these fence pointers instead of NULL to avoid NULL dereference when calling dma_fence_wait() on them.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78b25110eb8c6990f7f5096bc0136c12a2b4cc99
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9e9ba5748c524eb0925a2ef6984b78793646d6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/187916e6ed9d0c3b3abc27429f7a5f8c936bd1f0

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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Linux

Version: d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21
Version: d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21
Version: d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21

Linux

Version: 4.2

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