CVE-2023-54157
CVE-2023-54157CVE-2023-54157
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binder: fix UAF of alloc->vma in race with munmap()
[ cmllamas: clean forward port from commit 015ac18be7de ("binder: fix
UAF of alloc->vma in race with munmap()") in 5.10 stable. It is needed
in mainline after the revert of commit a43cfc87caaf ("android: binder:
stop saving a pointer to the VMA") as pointed out by Liam. The commit
log and tags have been tweaked to reflect this. ]
In commit 720c24192404 ("ANDROID: binder: change down_write to
down_read") binder assumed the mmap read lock is sufficient to protect
alloc->vma inside binder_update_page_range(). This used to be accurate
until commit dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in
munmap"), which now downgrades the mmap_lock after detaching the vma
from the rbtree in munmap(). Then it proceeds to teardown and free the
vma with only the read lock held.
This means that accesses to alloc->vma in binder_update_page_range() now
will race with
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |