# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52439"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-20T18:34:49.323Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:09:56.653Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52439"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52439.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52439"
title: "uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nuio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open\n\ncore-1\t\t\t\tcore-2\n-------------------------------------------------------\nuio_unregister_device\t\tuio_open\n\t\t\t\tidev = idr_find()\ndevice_unregister(&idev-\u003edev)\nput_device(&idev-\u003edev)\nuio_device_release\n\t\t\t\tget_device(&idev-\u003edev)\nkfree(idev)\nuio_free_minor(minor)\n\t\t\t\tuio_release\n\t\t\t\tput_device(&idev-\u003edev)\n\t\t\t\tkfree(idev)\n-------------------------------------------------------\n\nIn the core-1 uio_unregister_device(), the device_unregister will kfree\nidev when the idev-\u003edev kobject ref is 1. But after core-1\ndevice_unregister, put_device and before doing kfree, the core-2 may\nget_device. Then:\n1. After core-1 kfree idev, the core-2 will do use-after-free for idev.\n2. When core-2 do uio_release and put_device, the idev will be double\n   freed.\n\nTo address this issue, we can get idev atomic & inc idev reference with\nminor_lock."
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