CVE-2023-54309 (GCVE-0-2023-54309)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:23
VLAI?
Title
tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation
/dev/vtpmx is made visible before 'workqueue' is initialized, which can
lead to a memory corruption in the worst case scenario.
Address this by initializing 'workqueue' as the very first step of the
driver initialization.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < 509d21f1c4bb9d35d397fca3226165b156a7639f
(git)
Affected: 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < 04e8697d26613ccea760cf57eb20a5a27f788c0f (git) Affected: 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < 86b9820395f226b8f33cbae9599deebf8af1ce72 (git) Affected: 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < 9ff7fcb3a2ed0e9b895bb5b4c13872d584a8815b (git) Affected: 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < e08295290c53a3cf174c236721747a01b9550ae2 (git) Affected: 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < 99b998fb9d7d2d2d9dbb3e19db2d0ade02f5a604 (git) Affected: 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < 092db954e2c3c5ba6c0ce990c7da72cf8f3b9c51 (git) Affected: 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 , < f4032d615f90970d6c3ac1d9c0bce3351eb4445c (git) |
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