Linux Kernel up to 6.4.7 iommufd iommufd_ioas null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.4.7. It has been rated as critical. This impacts the function iommufd_ioas of the component iommufd. Performing a manipulation results in null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-54060. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.4.7. This affects the function iommufd_ioas of the component iommufd. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommufd: Set end correctly when doing batch carry Even though the test suite covers this it somehow became obscured that this wasn't working. The test iommufd_ioas.mock_domain.access_domain_destory would blow up rarely. end should be set to 1 because this just pushed an item, the carry, to the pfns list. Sometimes the test would blow up with: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 5 PID: 584 Comm: iommufd Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1-dirty #1236 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:batch_unpin+0xa2/0x100 [iommufd] Code: 17 48 81 fe ff ff 07 00 77 70 48 8b 15 b7 be 97 e2 48 85 d2 74 14 48 8b 14 fa 48 85 d2 74 0b 40 0f b6 f6 48 c1 e6 04 48 01 f2 <48> 8b 3a 48 c1 e0 06 89 ca 48 89 de 48 83 e7 f0 48 01 c7 e8 96 dc RSP: 0018:ffffc90001677a58 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 00007f7e2646f000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fefc4c8d RDI: 0000000000fefc4c RBP: ffffc90001677a80 R08: 0000000000000048 R09: 0000000000000200 R10: 0000000000030b98 R11: ffffffff81f3bb40 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: ffff888101f75800 R14: ffffc90001677ad0 R15: 00000000000001fe FS: 00007f9323679740(0000) GS:ffff8881ba540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000105ede003 CR4: 00000000003706a0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs+0x5c/0x70 ? __die+0x1f/0x60 ? page_fault_oops+0x15d/0x440 ? lock_release+0xbc/0x240 ? exc_page_fault+0x4a4/0x970 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 ? batch_unpin+0xa2/0x100 [iommufd] ? batch_unpin+0xba/0x100 [iommufd] __iopt_area_unfill_domain+0x198/0x430 [iommufd] ? __mutex_lock+0x8c/0xb80 ? __mutex_lock+0x6aa/0xb80 ? xa_erase+0x28/0x30 ? iopt_table_remove_domain+0x162/0x320 [iommufd] ? lock_release+0xbc/0x240 iopt_area_unfill_domain+0xd/0x10 [iommufd] iopt_table_remove_domain+0x195/0x320 [iommufd] iommufd_hw_pagetable_destroy+0xb3/0x110 [iommufd] iommufd_object_destroy_user+0x8e/0xf0 [iommufd] iommufd_device_detach+0xc5/0x140 [iommufd] iommufd_selftest_destroy+0x1f/0x70 [iommufd] iommufd_object_destroy_user+0x8e/0xf0 [iommufd] iommufd_destroy+0x3a/0x50 [iommufd] iommufd_fops_ioctl+0xfb/0x170 [iommufd] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x40d/0x9a0 do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-54060 since 12/24/2025. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 279942 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54060), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.4.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 176f36a376c417b58d19f79edfce20db9317eaa2/b7c822fa6b7701b17e139f1c562fc24135880ed4 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 databases at Tenable (279942) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2929). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Open Source Linux Kernel

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.4.0
• 6.4.1
• 6.4.2
• 6.4.3
• 6.4.4
• 6.4.5
• 6.4.6
• 6.4.7

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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