CVE-2023-53816: Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: fix potential kgd_mem UAFs kgd_mem pointers returned by kfd_process_device_translate_handle are only guaranteed to be valid while p->mutex is held. As soon as the mutex is unlocked, another thread can free the BO.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 3.19, before 6.1.23 (fixed in 6.1.23); from 6.2, before 6.2.10 (fixed in 6.2.10)

Published 2025-12-09. Last modified 2026-08-04.