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Unreviewed Published Sep 17, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 17, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

PCI: Fix use-after-free in pci_bus_release_domain_nr()

Commit c14f7ccc9f5d ("PCI: Assign PCI domain IDs by ida_alloc()")
introduced a use-after-free bug in the bus removal cleanup. The issue was
found with kfence:

[ 19.293351] BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in pci_bus_release_domain_nr+0x10/0x70

[ 19.302817] Use-after-free read at 0x000000007f3b80eb (in kfence-#115):
[ 19.309677] pci_bus_release_domain_nr+0x10/0x70
[ 19.309691] dw_pcie_host_deinit+0x28/0x78
[ 19.309702] tegra_pcie_deinit_controller+0x1c/0x38 [pcie_tegra194]
[ 19.309734] tegra_pcie_dw_probe+0x648/0xb28 [pcie_tegra194]
[ 19.309752] platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
...

[ 19.311457] kfence-#115: 0x00000000063a155a-0x00000000ba698da8, size=1072, cache=kmalloc-2k

[ 19.311469] allocated by task 96 on cpu 10 at 19.279323s:
[ 19.311562] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x260/0x278
[ 19.311571] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x30
[ 19.311580] pci_alloc_bus+0x24/0xa0
[ 19.311590] pci_register_host_bridge+0x48/0x4b8
[ 19.311601] pci_scan_root_bus_bridge+0xc0/0xe8
[ 19.311613] pci_host_probe+0x18/0xc0
[ 19.311623] dw_pcie_host_init+0x2c0/0x568
[ 19.311630] tegra_pcie_dw_probe+0x610/0xb28 [pcie_tegra194]
[ 19.311647] platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
...

[ 19.311782] freed by task 96 on cpu 10 at 19.285833s:
[ 19.311799] release_pcibus_dev+0x30/0x40
[ 19.311808] device_release+0x30/0x90
[ 19.311814] kobject_put+0xa8/0x120
[ 19.311832] device_unregister+0x20/0x30
[ 19.311839] pci_remove_bus+0x78/0x88
[ 19.311850] pci_remove_root_bus+0x5c/0x98
[ 19.311860] dw_pcie_host_deinit+0x28/0x78
[ 19.311866] tegra_pcie_deinit_controller+0x1c/0x38 [pcie_tegra194]
[ 19.311883] tegra_pcie_dw_probe+0x648/0xb28 [pcie_tegra194]
[ 19.311900] platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
...

[ 19.313579] CPU: 10 PID: 96 Comm: kworker/u24:2 Not tainted 6.2.0 #4
[ 19.320171] Hardware name: /, BIOS 1.0-d7fb19b 08/10/2022
[ 19.325852] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func

The stack trace is a bit misleading as dw_pcie_host_deinit() doesn't
directly call pci_bus_release_domain_nr(). The issue turns out to be in
pci_remove_root_bus() which first calls pci_remove_bus() which frees the
struct pci_bus when its struct device is released. Then
pci_bus_release_domain_nr() is called and accesses the freed struct
pci_bus. Reordering these fixes the issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 17, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2025
Last updated Sep 17, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53363

GHSA ID

GHSA-2j59-jjwx-7c79

Source code

No known source code

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