CVE-2023-53090

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an illegal memory access in the Linux kernel, specifically in the kfd wait on events() function. The kfd event waiter structure is allocated but not properly initialized, leading to a system crash when an exception occurs. The crash log indicates a problem with memory access, resulting in a system crash. The estimated number of potentially affected devices worldwide is not available.

Recommendations To resolve the issue, allocate the kfd event waiter structure with kcalloc and remove redundant 0-initialization and a redundant loop condition check. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.