CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53479
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/acpi: Fix a use-after-free in cxl_parse_cfmws()
KASAN and KFENCE detected an user-after-free in the CXL driver. This
happens in the cxl_decoder_add() fail path. KASAN prints the following
error:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cxl_parse_cfmws (drivers/cxl/acpi.c:299)
This happens in cxl_parse_cfmws(), where put_device() is called,
releasing cxld, which is accessed later.
Use the local variables in the dev_err() instead of pointing to the
released memory. Since the dev_err() is printing a resource, change the open
coded print format to use the %pr format specifier.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.1.43)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness