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GHSA-C9XP-XHGQ-2RJ5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-30 15:30 – Updated: 2025-12-30 15:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: Fix leak of dev tracker

At the stage of direction checks, the netdev reference tracker is already initialized, but released with wrong *_put() call.

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CVE-2023-54273 (GCVE-0-2023-54273)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:16 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:16

Title

xfrm: Fix leak of dev tracker

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: Fix leak of dev tracker At the stage of direction checks, the netdev reference tracker is already initialized, but released with wrong *_put() call.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d16c515059b3746f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec8f32ad9a65a8cbb…

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Product

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Linux

Affected: 919e43fad5163a8ceb39826ecdee897a9f799351 , < 7d16c515059b3746f2d6a24a74c3ba786a68c2a1 (git)
Affected: 919e43fad5163a8ceb39826ecdee897a9f799351 , < ec8f32ad9a65a8cbb465b69e154aaec9d2fe45c4 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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