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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52562" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:59:35.568Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:26:04.021Z" 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-2023-52562" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52562.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52562" title: "mm/slab_common: fix slab_caches list corruption after kmem_cache_destroy()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/slab_common: fix slab_caches list corruption after kmem_cache_destroy()\n\nAfter the commit in Fixes:, if a module that created a slab cache does not\nrelease all of its allocated objects before destroying the cache (at rmmod\ntime), we might end up releasing the kmem_cache object without removing it\nfrom the slab_caches list thus corrupting the list as kmem_cache_destroy()\nignores the return value from shutdown_cache(), which in turn never removes\nthe kmem_cache object from slabs_list in case __kmem_cache_shutdown() fails\nto release all of the cache's slabs.\n\nThis is easily observable on a kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y\nas after that ill release the system will immediately trip on list_add,\nor list_del, assertions similar to the one shown below as soon as another\nkmem_cache gets created, or destroyed:\n\n [ 1041.213632] list_del corruption. next-\u003eprev should be ffff89f596fb5768, but was 52f1e5016aeee75d. (next=ffff89f595a1b268)\n [ 1041.219165] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n [ 1041.221517] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!\n [ 1041.223452] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n [ 1041.225408] CPU: 2 PID: 1852 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W OE 6.5.0 #15\n [ 1041.228244] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023\n [ 1041.231212] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0xae/0xb0\n\nAnother quick way to trigger this issue, in a kernel with CONFIG_SLUB=y,\nis to set slub_debug to poison the released objects and then just run\ncat /proc/slabinfo after removing the module that leaks slab objects,\nin which case the kernel will panic:\n\n [ 50.954843] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xa56b6b6b6b6b6b8b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n [ 50.961545] CPU: 2 PID: 1495 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W OE 6.5.0 #15\n [ 50.966808] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023\n [ 50.972663] RIP: 0010:get_slabinfo+0x42/0xf0\n\nThis patch fixes this issue by properly checking shutdown_cache()'s\nreturn value before taking the kmem_cache_release() branch." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0495e337b7039191dfce6e03f5f830454b1fae6b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5569bb187521432f509b69dda7d29f78b2d38b0"},{"version":"0495e337b7039191dfce6e03f5f830454b1fae6b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51988be187b041e5355245957b0b9751fa382e0d"},{"version":"0495e337b7039191dfce6e03f5f830454b1fae6b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46a9ea6681907a3be6b6b0d43776dccc62cad6cf"},{"version":"357321557920c805de2b14832002465c320eea4f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.19.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.1.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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