Linux Kernel up to 6.1.46/6.4.11 Amdgpu Driver amddrm_buddy_fini control flow

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.46/6.4.11. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is the function amddrm_buddy_fini of the component Amdgpu Driver. Such manipulation leads to control flow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-53152. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.46/6.4.11 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function amddrm_buddy_fini of the component Amdgpu Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a control flow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-670. The code contains a control flow path that does not reflect the algorithm that the path is intended to implement, leading to incorrect behavior any time this path is navigated. The impact remains unknown. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini The following call trace is observed when removing the amdgpu driver, which is caused by that BOs allocated for psp are not freed until removing. [61811.450562] RIP: 0010:amddrm_buddy_fini.cold+0x29/0x47 [amddrm_buddy] [61811.450577] Call Trace: [61811.450577] <TASK> [61811.450579] amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini+0x135/0x1c0 [amdgpu] [61811.450728] amdgpu_ttm_fini+0x207/0x290 [amdgpu] [61811.450870] amdgpu_bo_fini+0x27/0xa0 [amdgpu] [61811.451012] gmc_v9_0_sw_fini+0x4a/0x60 [amdgpu] [61811.451166] amdgpu_device_fini_sw+0x117/0x520 [amdgpu] [61811.451306] amdgpu_driver_release_kms+0x16/0x30 [amdgpu] [61811.451447] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x4d/0x80 [drm] [61811.451466] devm_action_release+0x15/0x20 [61811.451469] release_nodes+0x40/0xb0 [61811.451471] devres_release_all+0x9b/0xd0 [61811.451473] __device_release_driver+0x1bb/0x2a0 [61811.451476] driver_detach+0xf3/0x140 [61811.451479] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xf0 [61811.451481] driver_unregister+0x31/0x60 [61811.451483] pci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90 [61811.451486] amdgpu_exit+0x15/0x447 [amdgpu] For smu v13_0_2, if the GPU supports xgmi, refer to commit f5c7e7797060 ("drm/amdgpu: Adjust removal control flow for smu v13_0_2"), it will run gpu recover in AMDGPU_RESET_FOR_DEVICE_REMOVE mode when removing, which makes all devices in hive list have hw reset but no resume except the basic ip blocks, then other ip blocks will not call .hw_fini according to ip_block.status.hw. Since psp_free_shared_bufs just includes some software operations, so move it to psp_sw_fini.

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-53152 since 05/02/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/10/2026).

Upgrading to version 6.1.47 or 6.4.12 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch ab6f446c220db0c131f2071846afd835799be0fb/756d674117f5c451f415d1c4046b927052a90c14/01382501509871d0799bab6bd412c228486af5bf 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2053). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• SUSE openSUSE
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell Secure Connect Gateway
• F5 F5OS

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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
• 6.1.22
• 6.1.23
• 6.1.24
• 6.1.25
• 6.1.26
• 6.1.27
• 6.1.28
• 6.1.29
• 6.1.30
• 6.1.31
• 6.1.32
• 6.1.33
• 6.1.34
• 6.1.35
• 6.1.36
• 6.1.37
• 6.1.38
• 6.1.39
• 6.1.40
• 6.1.41
• 6.1.42
• 6.1.43
• 6.1.44
• 6.1.45
• 6.1.46
• 6.4.0
• 6.4.1
• 6.4.2
• 6.4.3
• 6.4.4
• 6.4.5
• 6.4.6
• 6.4.7
• 6.4.8
• 6.4.9
• 6.4.10
• 6.4.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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