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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52468"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-25T08:16:32.387Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:27:53.927Z"
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-2023-52468"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52468.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52468"
title: "class: fix use-after-free in class_register()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nclass: fix use-after-free in class_register()\n\nThe lock_class_key is still registered and can be found in\nlock_keys_hash hlist after subsys_private is freed in error\nhandler path.A task who iterate over the lock_keys_hash\nlater may cause use-after-free.So fix that up and unregister\nthe lock_class_key before kfree(cp).\n\nOn our platform, a driver fails to kset_register because of\ncreating duplicate filename '/class/xxx'.With Kasan enabled,\nit prints a invalid-access bug report.\n\nKASAN bug report:\n\nBUG: KASAN: invalid-access in lockdep_register_key+0x19c/0x1bc\nWrite of size 8 at addr 15ffff808b8c0368 by task modprobe/252\nPointer tag: [15], memory tag: [fe]\n\nCPU: 7 PID: 252 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W\n 6.6.0-mainline-maybe-dirty #1\n\nCall trace:\ndump_backtrace+0x1b0/0x1e4\nshow_stack+0x2c/0x40\ndump_stack_lvl+0xac/0xe0\nprint_report+0x18c/0x4d8\nkasan_report+0xe8/0x148\n__hwasan_store8_noabort+0x88/0x98\nlockdep_register_key+0x19c/0x1bc\nclass_register+0x94/0x1ec\ninit_module+0xbc/0xf48 [rfkill]\ndo_one_initcall+0x17c/0x72c\ndo_init_module+0x19c/0x3f8\n...\nMemory state around the buggy address:\nffffff808b8c0100: 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a\nffffff808b8c0200: 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a 8a fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe\n\u003effffff808b8c0300: fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe fe\n                                     ^\nffffff808b8c0400: 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03\n\nAs CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC is not set, Kasan reports invalid-access\nnot use-after-free here.In this case, modprobe is manipulating\nthe corrupted lock_keys_hash hlish where lock_class_key is already\nfreed before.\n\nIt's worth noting that this only can happen if lockdep is enabled,\nwhich is not true for normal system."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dcfbb67e48a2becfce7990386e985b9c45098ee5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b57196a5ec5e4c0ffecde8348b085b778c7dce04"},{"version":"dcfbb67e48a2becfce7990386e985b9c45098ee5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f1486dafca3398c4c46b9f6e6452fa27e73b559"},{"version":"dcfbb67e48a2becfce7990386e985b9c45098ee5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93ec4a3b76404bce01bd5c9032bef5df6feb1d62"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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