What is CVE-2023-54202?

CVE-2023-54202 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-12-30.

How severe is CVE-2023-54202?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2023-54202

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: fix race condition UAF in i915_perf_add_config_ioctl Userspace can guess the id value and try to race oa_config object creation with config remove, resulting in a use-after-free if we dereference the object after unlocking the metrics_lock. For that reason, unlocking the metrics_lock must be done after we are done dereferencing the object. [tursulin: Manually added stable tag.] (cherry picked from commit 49f6f6483b652108bcb73accd0204a464b922395)

EPSS: 0.002 (6.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions f89823c212246d0671cc51e69894a3df1a743aee, 4.14, 0

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-54202?: CVE-2023-54202 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-12-30.
How severe is CVE-2023-54202?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.