{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2023-52973","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-03-27T16:40:15.737Z","datePublished":"2025-03-27T16:43:12.756Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:36:11.829Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:36:11.829Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvc_screen: move load of struct vc_data pointer in vcs_read() to avoid UAF\n\nAfter a call to console_unlock() in vcs_read() the vc_data struct can be\nfreed by vc_deallocate(). Because of that, the struct vc_data pointer\nload must be done at the top of while loop in vcs_read() to avoid a UAF\nwhen vcs_size() is called.\n\nSyzkaller reported a UAF in vcs_size().\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff8881137479a8 by task 4a005ed81e27e65/1537\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 1537 Comm: 4a005ed81e27e65 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5 #1\nHardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module\nCall Trace:\n  <TASK>\n__asan_report_load4_noabort (mm/kasan/report_generic.c:350)\nvcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)\nvcs_read (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:415)\nvfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468 fs/read_write.c:450)\n...\n  </TASK>\n\nAllocated by task 1191:\n...\nkmalloc_trace (mm/slab_common.c:1069)\nvc_allocate (./include/linux/slab.h:580 ./include/linux/slab.h:720\n     drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1128 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1108)\ncon_install (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3383)\ntty_init_dev (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1301 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1413\n     drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1390)\ntty_open (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2080 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2126)\nchrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:415)\ndo_dentry_open (fs/open.c:883)\nvfs_open (fs/open.c:1014)\n...\n\nFreed by task 1548:\n...\nkfree (mm/slab_common.c:1021)\nvc_port_destruct (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1094)\ntty_port_destructor (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:296)\ntty_port_put (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:312)\nvt_disallocate_all (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:662 (discriminator 2))\nvt_ioctl (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:903)\ntty_ioctl (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2776)\n...\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888113747800\n  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024\nThe buggy address is located 424 bytes inside of\n  1024-byte region [ffff888113747800, ffff888113747c00)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage:00000000b3fe6c7c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000\n     index:0x0 pfn:0x113740\nhead:00000000b3fe6c7c order:3 compound_mapcount:0 subpages_mapcount:0\n     compound_pincount:0\nanon flags: 0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)\nraw: 0017ffffc0010200 ffff888100042dc0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001\nraw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000\npage dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n  ffff888113747880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n  ffff888113747900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n> ffff888113747980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n                                   ^\n  ffff888113747a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n  ffff888113747a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n==================================================================\nDisabling lock debugging due to kernel 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