CVE-2023-53138
CVE-2023-53138CVE-2023-53138
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()
syzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1]. This
causes a stack trace like below:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214
CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313
print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]
kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491
cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138
notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87
call_netde
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |