CVE-2023-53152
Linux Kernel 4.12 – 6.1.47
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-53152 is a medium-severity Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime (CWE-772) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique LSASS Memory (T1003.001); ranked at the 4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-59815
Vulnerability Data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini The following call trace is observed when removing the amdgpu driver, which is caused by that BOs allocated for psp are not freed until…
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removing. [61811.450562] RIP: 0010:amddrm_buddy_fini.cold+0x29/0x47 [amddrm_buddy] [61811.450577] Call Trace: [61811.450577] <TASK> [61811.450579] amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini+0x135/0x1c0 [amdgpu] [61811.450728] amdgpu_ttm_fini+0x207/0x290 [amdgpu] [61811.450870] amdgpu_bo_fini+0x27/0xa0 [amdgpu] [61811.451012] gmc_v9_0_sw_fini+0x4a/0x60 [amdgpu] [61811.451166] amdgpu_device_fini_sw+0x117/0x520 [amdgpu] [61811.451306] amdgpu_driver_release_kms+0x16/0x30 [amdgpu] [61811.451447] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x4d/0x80 [drm] [61811.451466] devm_action_release+0x15/0x20 [61811.451469] release_nodes+0x40/0xb0 [61811.451471] devres_release_all+0x9b/0xd0 [61811.451473] __device_release_driver+0x1bb/0x2a0 [61811.451476] driver_detach+0xf3/0x140 [61811.451479] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xf0 [61811.451481] driver_unregister+0x31/0x60 [61811.451483] pci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90 [61811.451486] amdgpu_exit+0x15/0x447 [amdgpu] For smu v13_0_2, if the GPU supports xgmi, refer to commit f5c7e7797060 ("drm/amdgpu: Adjust removal control flow for smu v13_0_2"), it will run gpu recover in AMDGPU_RESET_FOR_DEVICE_REMOVE mode when removing, which makes all devices in hive list have hw reset but no resume except the basic ip blocks, then other ip blocks will not call .hw_fini according to ip_block.status.hw. Since psp_free_shared_bufs just includes some software operations, so move it to psp_sw_fini.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing resource releases through dynamic analysis or stress testing.
Requiring documented development standards and tools can mandate explicit resource-release patterns in code.
Resource-quota allocation limits the blast radius of an unreleased-resource exhaustion condition.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Runtime monitoring may surface resource-exhaustion symptoms but does not address release logic.
Lifecycle management explicitly requires handling resources through end-of-life including release.
Capacity monitoring can detect exhaustion caused by unreleased resources but does not prevent the root defect.
Secure SDLC practices directly prevent missing resource-release defects during development.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Explicit information-deletion requirements directly address timely release of resources after use.