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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

x86/mm, kexec, ima: Use memblock_free_late() from ima_free_kexec_buffer()

CVE-2023-52576

Description

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

x86/mm, kexec, ima: Use memblock_free_late() from ima_free_kexec_buffer()

The code calling ima_free_kexec_buffer() runs long after the memblock allocator has already been torn down, potentially resulting in a use after free in memblock_isolate_range().

With KASAN or KFENCE, this use after free will result in a BUG from the idle task, and a subsequent kernel panic.

Switch ima_free_kexec_buffer() over to memblock_free_late() to avoid that bug.

Affected products

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Patches

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