CVE-2023-53547 drm/amdgpu: Fix sdma v4 sw fini error

What is CVE-2023-53547?

CVE-2023-53547 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

drm/amdgpu: Fix sdma v4 sw fini error

Fix sdma v4 sw fini error for sdma 4.2.2 to solve the following general protection fault

[ +0.108196] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xd5e5a4ae79d24a32: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ +0.000018] RIP: 0010:free_fw_priv+0xd/0x70 [ +0.000022] Call Trace: [ +0.000012] <TASK> [ +0.000011] release_firmware+0x55/0x80 [ +0.000021] amdgpu_ucode_release+0x11/0x20 [amdgpu] [ +0.000415] amdgpu_sdma_destroy_inst_ctx+0x4f/0x90 [amdgpu] [ +0.000360] sdma_v4_0_sw_fini+0xce/0x110 [amdgpu]

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53547?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53547?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2023-53547 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53547 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53547, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53547, GHSA-3pqf-cfwc-jjm7, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53547, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53547, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53547.