# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52475"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-29T05:43:08.838Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:28:02.020Z"
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-2023-52475"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52475.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52475"
title: "Input: powermate - fix use-after-free in powermate_config_complete"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: powermate - fix use-after-free in powermate_config_complete\n\nsyzbot has found a use-after-free bug [1] in the powermate driver. This\nhappens when the device is disconnected, which leads to a memory free from\nthe powermate_device struct.  When an asynchronous control message\ncompletes after the kfree and its callback is invoked, the lock does not\nexist anymore and hence the bug.\n\nUse usb_kill_urb() on pm-\u003econfig to cancel any in-progress requests upon\ndevice disconnection.\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0434ac83f907a1dbdd1e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8677575c4f39d65bf0d719b5d20e8042e550ccb9"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67cace72606baf1758fd60feb358f4c6be92e1cc"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5aa514100aaf59868d745196258269a16737c7bd"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd2fbfd8b922b7fdd50732e47d797754ab59cb06"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a4a396386404e62fb59bc3bde48871a64a82b4f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2efe67c581a2a6122b328d4bb6f21b3f36f40d46"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e528b1b9d60743e0b26224e3fe7aa74c24b8b2f8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c15c60e7be615f05a45cd905093a54b11f461bc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"4.14.328","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.199","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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