CVE-2023-53596

HIGH

Linux Kernel 3.7-6.1.52, 6.4.0-6.4.15, 6.5.0-6.5.2 - Use-After-Free in Device Resource Management

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device has a bus and has been probed. This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example. We should thus call devres_release_all() in the device_del() function to make sure that the device-managed actions are properly executed when the device is unregistered, even if it has neither a bus nor a driver. This is effectively the same change than commit 2f8d16a996da ("devres: release resources on device_del()") that got reverted by commit a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") over memory leaks concerns. This patch effectively combines the two commits mentioned above to release the resources both on device_del() and device_release() and get the best of both worlds.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-415
Status published
Products (15)
Linux/Linux < 3.7
Linux/Linux 3.7
Linux/Linux 5.10.258 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.209 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.53 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.4.16 - 6.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.5.3 - 6.5.*
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc - 297992e5c63528e603666e36081836204fc36ec9
Linux/Linux a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc - 3bcc4c2a096e8342c8c719e595ce15de212694dd
... and 5 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026