CVE-2023-53636
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
07/10/2025
Last modified:
08/10/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
clk: microchip: fix potential UAF in auxdev release callback<br />
<br />
Similar to commit 1c11289b34ab ("peci: cpu: Fix use-after-free in<br />
adev_release()"), the auxiliary device is not torn down in the correct<br />
order. If auxiliary_device_add() fails, the release callback will be<br />
called twice, resulting in a UAF. Due to timing, the auxdev code in this<br />
driver "took inspiration" from the aforementioned commit, and thus its<br />
bugs too!<br />
<br />
Moving auxiliary_device_uninit() to the unregister callback instead<br />
avoids the issue.



