CVE-2023-53703 HID: amd_sfh: Fix for shift-out-of-bounds
A shift-out-of-bounds error in the AMD SFH HID driver can cause a kernel crash, requiring a patch to validate shift ranges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-53703?
CVE-2023-53703 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 22 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:
HID: amd_sfh: Fix for shift-out-of-bounds
Shift operation of 'exp' and 'shift' variables exceeds the maximum number of shift values in the u32 range leading to UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds.
... [ 6.120512] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/hid/amd-sfh-hid/sfh1_1/amd_sfh_desc.c:149:50 [ 6.120598] shift exponent 104 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int' [ 6.120659] CPU: 4 PID: 96 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 6.4.0amd_1-next-20230519-dirty #10 [ 6.120665] Hardware name: AMD Birman-PHX/Birman-PHX, BIOS SFH_with_HPD_SEN.FD 04/05/2023 [ 6.120667] Workqueue: events amd_sfh_work_buffer [amd_sfh] [ 6.120687] Call Trace: [ 6.120690] <TASK> [ 6.120694] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x70 [ 6.120704] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 6.120707] ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x40 [ 6.120716] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x10f/0x170 [ 6.120720] ? psi_group_change+0x25f/0x4b0 [ 6.120729] float_to_int.cold+0x18/0xba [amd_sfh] [ 6.120739] get_input_rep+0x57/0x340 [amd_sfh] [ 6.120748] ? __schedule+0xba7/0x1b60 [ 6.120756] ? __pfx_get_input_rep+0x10/0x10 [amd_sfh] [ 6.120764] amd_sfh_work_buffer+0x91/0x180 [amd_sfh] [ 6.120772] process_one_work+0x229/0x430 [ 6.120780] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3c0 [ 6.120784] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 6.120788] kthread+0xf7/0x130 [ 6.120792] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 6.120795] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50 [ 6.120804] </TASK> ...
Fix this by adding the condition to validate shift ranges.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53703?
How do I fix CVE-2023-53703?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2023-53703 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53703 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53703, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53703, GHSA-rmv6-m884-3827, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53703.