PT-2023-9556 · Linux+5 · Linux Kernel+5

Baolin Wang · Published 2023-12-29 · Updated 2025-02-20 · CVE-2023-52490

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by page migration in the Linux kernel. When running stress-ng testing, a kernel crash occurred after a few hours due to an incorrect page mapping. The scenario involves one thread doing page migration and using the target page's ->mapping field to save the 'anon vma' pointer between page unmap and page move. However, another stress-ng thread performing memory hotplug attempts to offline the target page, which may return an incorrect file mapping and crash the system.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025:1659

ALSA-2025_1659

BDU:2024-08414

CVE-2023-52490

INFSA-2025_1659

RHSA-2025:1659

RHSA-2025_1659

USN-6765-1

USN-6818-1

USN-6818-2

USN-6818-3

USN-6818-4

USN-6819-1

USN-6819-2

USN-6819-3

USN-6819-4

Affected Products

Almalinux

Linuxmint

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Red Os

Ubuntu

References · 503

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52490.json · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BELL-CVE-2023-52490 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-52685 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26595 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-26615 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26641 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-07475 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-26595 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26647 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52489 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52682 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-26610 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52618 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52498 · Vendor Advisory