# CVE-2024-53116: drm/panthor: Fix handling of partial GPU mapping of BOs > A bug in the Panthor GPU driver causes kernel warnings and potential instability when handling partial buffer object mappings, leading to denial of service. - **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`) - **Exploited in the wild:** Not known - **Login needed:** Any signed-in user - **Attackable:** Local or same network only - **Victim action needed:** Not needed - **Fix available:** Yes - **Published:** 2 Dec 2024 - **Updated:** 11 May 2026 - **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-53116, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53116, GHSA-vr58-5gj9-563m, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53116 ## What is CVE-2024-53116? CVE-2024-53116 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 Dec 2024. 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/panthor: Fix handling of partial GPU mapping of BOs This commit fixes the bug in the handling of partial mapping of the buffer objects to the GPU, which caused kernel warnings. Panthor didn't correctly handle the case where the partial mapping spanned multiple scatterlists and the mapping offset didn't point to the 1st page of starting scatterlist. The offset variable was not cleared after reaching the starting scatterlist. Following warning messages were seen. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 650 at drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c:659 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 pc : __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 lr : __arm_lpae_unmap+0x2cc/0x5a0 Call trace: __arm_lpae_unmap+0x254/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 __arm_lpae_unmap+0x108/0x5a0 arm_lpae_unmap_pages+0x80/0xa0 panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0xac/0x1c8 [panthor] panthor_gpuva_sm_step_unmap+0x4c/0xc8 [panthor] op_unmap_cb.isra.23.constprop.30+0x54/0x80 __drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap+0x184/0x1c8 drm_gpuvm_sm_unmap+0x40/0x60 panthor_vm_exec_op+0xa8/0x120 [panthor] panthor_vm_bind_exec_sync_op+0xc4/0xe8 [panthor] panthor_ioctl_vm_bind+0x10c/0x170 [panthor] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xbc/0x138 drm_ioctl+0x210/0x4b0 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xb0/0xf8 invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x110 el0_svc_common.constprop.1+0x98/0xf8 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x34/0xc8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xc8 el0t_64_sync+0x174/0x178 panthor : [drm] drm_WARN_ON(unmapped_sz != pgsize * pgcount) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 650 at drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_mmu.c:922 panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] pc : panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] lr : panthor_vm_unmap_pages+0x124/0x1c8 [panthor] panthor : [drm] *ERROR* failed to unmap range ffffa388f000-ffffa3890000 (requested range ffffa388c000-ffffa3890000) ## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53116? It affects 1 product. Products: Linux kernel. ## How do I fix CVE-2024-53116? Apply the vendor's patch. ## Is CVE-2024-53116 being exploited? There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53116 in the wild and no public exploit code. ## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel - [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild) ## Fix prompt for AI coding agents ```text Check this codebase for CVE-2024-53116 and fix it if it is affected. What it is: CVE-2024-53116 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 2 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim. Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53116 in the wild and no public exploit code. Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page. Task: 1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies. 2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it. 3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead. 4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why. 5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing. Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53116/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53116/index.md) ``` ## Sources - CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53116 - NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53116 - OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-53116 --- From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53116/ Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.