CVE-2023-53479
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
01/10/2025
Last modified:
02/10/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
cxl/acpi: Fix a use-after-free in cxl_parse_cfmws()<br />
<br />
KASAN and KFENCE detected an user-after-free in the CXL driver. This<br />
happens in the cxl_decoder_add() fail path. KASAN prints the following<br />
error:<br />
<br />
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cxl_parse_cfmws (drivers/cxl/acpi.c:299)<br />
<br />
This happens in cxl_parse_cfmws(), where put_device() is called,<br />
releasing cxld, which is accessed later.<br />
<br />
Use the local variables in the dev_err() instead of pointing to the<br />
released memory. Since the dev_err() is printing a resource, change the open<br />
coded print format to use the %pr format specifier.



