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FKIE_CVE-2023-53544

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-04 16:15 - Updated: 2025-10-06 14:56

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: davinci: Fix clk use after free The remove function first frees the clks and only then calls cpufreq_unregister_driver(). If one of the cpufreq callbacks is called just before cpufreq_unregister_driver() is run, the freed clks might be used.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d8f384a9b4fc50f6a18405f1c08e5a87a77b5b3
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66b3bbe6fbd8dd410868e5b53ac3944a934b9310
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5f024d0e6f91e05c816ad4ee8837173369dd5cb
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab05ae4ab831f64bbc427592c86f599ed9c4324f

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpufreq: davinci: Fix clk use after free\n\nThe remove function first frees the clks and only then calls\ncpufreq_unregister_driver(). If one of the cpufreq callbacks is called\njust before cpufreq_unregister_driver() is run, the freed clks might be\nused."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2023-53544",
  "lastModified": "2025-10-06T14:56:21.733",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-10-04T16:15:49.527",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2023-53544 (GCVE-0-2023-53544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:16 – Updated: 2025-10-04 15:16

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66b3bbe6fbd8dd410…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5f024d0e6f91e05c…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab05ae4ab831f64bb…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d8f384a9b4fc50f6…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 6601b8030de3e9c29930684eeac15302a59f991a , < 66b3bbe6fbd8dd410868e5b53ac3944a934b9310 (git)
Affected: 6601b8030de3e9c29930684eeac15302a59f991a , < a5f024d0e6f91e05c816ad4ee8837173369dd5cb (git)
Affected: 6601b8030de3e9c29930684eeac15302a59f991a , < ab05ae4ab831f64bbc427592c86f599ed9c4324f (git)
Affected: 6601b8030de3e9c29930684eeac15302a59f991a , < 5d8f384a9b4fc50f6a18405f1c08e5a87a77b5b3 (git)

Linux

Affected: 2.6.33
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.33 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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FKIE_CVE-2023-53544

CVE-2023-53544 (GCVE-0-2023-53544)

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