CVE-2023-53308 — Double Free in Linux

CWE-415 — Double Free5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 16

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in .remove() In the (unlikely) event that pm_runtime_get() (disguised as pm_runtime_resume_and_get()) fails, the remove callback returned an error early. The problem with this is that the driver core ignores the error value and continues removing the device. This results in a resource leak. Worse the devm allocated resources are freed and so if a callback of the driver is called…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.9.206 — 4.10+10
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux982d424239d7fae74938557428d45c717567ea9b — d52a0cca591e899d4e5c8ab19e067b4c6b7d104f+10
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2023-53308: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in↗2025-09-16
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GHSA
GHSA-jfrx-9667-j4w3: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in↗2025-09-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in .remove()↗2025-09-16
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Debian
CVE-2023-53308: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: B...↗2023
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