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CVE-2023-53112: drm/i915/sseu: fix max_subslices array-index-out-of-bounds access

HighCVSS 7.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 193c41926d152761764894f46e23b53c00186a82, 1a1682abf7399318ac074b1f2ac6a8c992b5b3da, 36b076ab6247cf0d2135b2ad6bb337617c3b5a1b.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 193c41926d152761764894f46e23b53c00186a82, 1a1682abf7399318ac074b1f2ac6a8c992b5b3da, 36b076ab6247cf0d2135b2ad6bb337617c3b5a1b or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/sseu: fix max_subslices array-index-out-of-bounds access It seems that commit bc3c5e0809ae ("drm/i915/sseu: Don't try to store EU mask internally in UAPI format") exposed a potential out-of-bounds access, reported by UBSAN as following on a laptop with a gen 11 i915 card: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_sseu.c:65:27 index 6 is out of range for type 'u16 [6]' CPU: 2 PID: 165 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.2.0-9-generic #9-Ubuntu Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9300/077Y9N, BIOS 1.11.0 03/22/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> show_stack+0x4e/0x61 dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x6f dump_stack+0x10/0x18 ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x3a __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x42/0x47 gen11_compute_sseu_info+0x121/0x130 [i915] intel_sseu_info_init+0x15d/0x2b0 [i915] intel_gt_init_mmio+0x23/0x40 [i915] i915_driver_mmio_probe+0x129/0x400 [i915] ? intel_gt_probe_all+0x91/0x2e0 [i915] i915_driver_probe+0xe1/0x3f0 [i915] ? drm_privacy_screen_get+0x16d/0x190 [drm] ? acpi_dev_found+0x64/0x80 i915_pci_probe+0xac/0x1b0 [i915] ... According to the definition of sseu_dev_info, eu_mask->hsw is limited to a maximum of GEN_MAX_SS_PER_HSW_SLICE (6) sub-slices, but gen11_sseu_info_init() can potentially set 8 sub-slices, in the !IS_JSL_EHL(gt->i915) case. Fix this by reserving up to 8 slots for max_subslices in the eu_mask struct. (cherry picked from commit 3cba09a6ac86ea1d456909626eb2685596c07822)

Published
May 2, 2025
Updated
Nov 5, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 10th percentile

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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  • Linux Linux

    • 6.0affected
    • bc3c5e0809ae9faa039baf75547e8ee46ec124ef and later · before 1a1682abf7399318ac074b1f2ac6a8c992b5b3daaffected · git
    • bc3c5e0809ae9faa039baf75547e8ee46ec124ef and later · before 36b076ab6247cf0d2135b2ad6bb337617c3b5a1baffected · git
    • bc3c5e0809ae9faa039baf75547e8ee46ec124ef and later · before 193c41926d152761764894f46e23b53c00186a82affected · git
    • before 6.0not affected · semver
    • 6.1.21 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver
    • 6.2.8 and later · up to and including 6.2.*not affected · semver
    • 6.3 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • linux linux kernel6.0 and later · before 6.1.21
  • linux linux kernel6.2 and later · before 6.2.8
  • linux linux kernel6.3

Package-level exposure

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EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 6.1.25-16.1.25-1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

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  • Later →CVE-2023-53113May 2, 2025 · wifi: nl80211: fix NULL-ptr deref in offchan check
    22Monitor

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux193c41926d152761764894f46e23b53c00186a82Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux1a1682abf7399318ac074b1f2ac6a8c992b5b3daVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux36b076ab6247cf0d2135b2ad6bb337617c3b5a1bVendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.1.25-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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