Linux Kernel up to 6.1.21/6.2.8 privilege escalation

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.21/6.2.8. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-53036. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.21/6.2.8. The impact remains unknown. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix call trace warning and hang when removing amdgpu device On GPUs with RAS enabled, below call trace and hang are observed when shutting down device. v2: use DRM device unplugged flag instead of shutdown flag as the check to prevent memory wipe in shutdown stage. [ +0.000000] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini+0x18d/0x1c0 [amdgpu] [ +0.000001] PKRU: 55555554 [ +0.000001] Call Trace: [ +0.000001] <TASK> [ +0.000002] amdgpu_ttm_fini+0x140/0x1c0 [amdgpu] [ +0.000183] amdgpu_bo_fini+0x27/0xa0 [amdgpu] [ +0.000184] gmc_v11_0_sw_fini+0x2b/0x40 [amdgpu] [ +0.000163] amdgpu_device_fini_sw+0xb6/0x510 [amdgpu] [ +0.000152] amdgpu_driver_release_kms+0x16/0x30 [amdgpu] [ +0.000090] drm_dev_release+0x28/0x50 [drm] [ +0.000016] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x38/0x60 [drm] [ +0.000011] devm_action_release+0x15/0x20 [ +0.000003] release_nodes+0x40/0xc0 [ +0.000001] devres_release_all+0x9e/0xe0 [ +0.000001] device_unbind_cleanup+0x12/0x80 [ +0.000003] device_release_driver_internal+0xff/0x160 [ +0.000001] driver_detach+0x4a/0x90 [ +0.000001] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xf0 [ +0.000001] driver_unregister+0x31/0x50 [ +0.000001] pci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90 [ +0.000003] amdgpu_exit+0x15/0x120 [amdgpu]

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-53036 since 03/27/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 6.1.22 or 6.2.9 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f06b902511ea05526f405ee64da54a8313d91831/9a02dae3bbfe2df8e1c81e61a08695709e9588f9/93bb18d2a873d2fa9625c8ea927723660a868b95 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Productinfo

Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
• 6.1.12
• 6.1.13
• 6.1.14
• 6.1.15
• 6.1.16
• 6.1.17
• 6.1.18
• 6.1.19
• 6.1.20
• 6.1.21
• 6.2.0
• 6.2.1
• 6.2.2
• 6.2.3
• 6.2.4
• 6.2.5
• 6.2.6
• 6.2.7
• 6.2.8

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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