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High · 7.8 CVE-2023-53363 EUVD-2023-59963GHSA-2j59-jjwx-7c79

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

Published Sep 17, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.11 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.11 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.2 6.2.12

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.3.7-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.3.7-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.137-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583
RHEL 9 rv +64 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583

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