CVE-2023-53596 — Double Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 4
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device
In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device
has a bus and has been probed.
This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where
the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference
to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example.
We should thus call devres_release_all() in the dev…
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
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc — 297992e5c63528e603666e36081836204fc36ec9+4
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2023-53596: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device In the current code↗2025-10-04
GHSA▶
GHSA-66x2-rpwx-fjfr: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device
In the current co↗2025-10-04