CVE-2023-52474

HIGHNVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2024-02-26. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests

hfi1 user SDMA request processing has two bugs that can cause data corruption for user SDMA requests that have multiple payload iovecs where an iovec other than the tail iovec does not run up to the page boundary for the buffer pointed to by that iovec.a

Here are the specific bugs:

  • user_sdma_txadd() does not use struct user_sdma_iovec->iov.iov_len.
Rather, user_sdma_txadd() will add up to PAGE_SIZE bytes from iovec to the packet, even if some of those bytes are past iovec->iov.iov_len and are thus not intended to be in the packet.
  • user_sdma_txadd() and user_sdma_send_pkts() fail to advance to the
next iovec in user_sdma_request->iovs when the current iovec is not PAGE_SIZE and does not contain enough data to complete the packet. The transmitted packet will contain the wrong data from the iovec pages.

This has not been an issue with SDMA packets from hfi1 Verbs or PSM2 because they only produce iovecs that end short of PAGE_SIZE as the tail iovec of an SDMA request.

Fixing these bugs exposes other bugs with the SDMA pin cache (struct mmu_rb_handler) that get in way of supporting user SDMA requests with multiple payload iovecs whose buffers do not end at PAGE_SIZE. So this commit fixes those issues as well.

Here are the mmu_rb_handler bugs that non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec payload user SDMA requests can hit:

  • Overlapping memory ranges in mmu_rb_handler will result in duplicate
pinnings.
  • When extending an existing mmu_rb_handler entry (struct mmu_rb_node),
the mmu_rb code (1) removes the existing entry under a lock, (2) releases that lock, pins the new pages, (3) then reacquires the lock to insert the extended mmu_rb_node.

If someone else comes in and inserts an overlapping entry between (2) and (3), insert in (3) will fail.

The failure path code in this case unpins _all_ pages in either the original mmu_rb_node or the new mmu_rb_node that was inserted between (2) and (3).

  • In hfi1_mmu_rb_remove_unless_exact(), mmu_rb_node->refcount is
incremented outside of mmu_rb_handler->lock. As a result, mmu_rb_node could be evicted by another thread that gets mmu_rb_handler->lock and checks mmu_rb_node->refcount before mmu_rb_node->refcount is incremented.
  • Related to #2 above, SDMA request submission failure path does not
check mmu_rb_node->refcount before freeing mmu_rb_node object.

If there are other SDMA requests in progress whose iovecs have pointers to the now-freed mmu_rb_node(s), those pointers to the now-freed mmu_rb nodes will be dereferenced when those SDMA requests complete.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8(medium)
EG Risk
35(Track)
EG Risk 35/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
17%
KEV
Not listed

Published

February 26, 2024

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Aug 4, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00cbce5cbf88459cd1aa1d60d0f1df15477df127
generic

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e6010f79b58f45b204cf18aa58f4b73c3f30adc
generic

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c76cb8f4bdf26d04cfa5485a93ce297dba5e6a80
generic

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dce59b5443700fbd0d2433ec6e4d4cf063448844
generic

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2bd706ab63509793b5cd5065e685b7ef5cba678
generic

IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c4c6512d7330b743c4ffd18bd999a86ca26db0d

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
linuxKernel @ 5.10.180osv

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-52474?
CVE-2023-52474 is a high vulnerability published on February 26, 2024. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/hfi1: Fix bugs with non-PAGE_SIZE-end multi-iovec user SDMA requests hfi1 user SDMA request processing has two bugs that can cause data corruption for user SDMA requests that have multiple payload iovecs where an iovec other…
When was CVE-2023-52474 disclosed?
CVE-2023-52474 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on February 26, 2024, with the most recent update on August 5, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2023-52474 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-52474 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 83.5% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-52474?
CVE-2023-52474 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-52474?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2023-52474, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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