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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52849" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:31:45.884Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:27:19.904Z" 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-2023-52849" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52849.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52849" title: "cxl/mem: Fix shutdown order" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/mem: Fix shutdown order\n\nIra reports that removing cxl_mock_mem causes a crash with the following\ntrace:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000044\n [..]\n RIP: 0010:cxl_region_decode_reset+0x7f/0x180 [cxl_core]\n [..]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n cxl_region_detach+0xe8/0x210 [cxl_core]\n cxl_decoder_kill_region+0x27/0x40 [cxl_core]\n cxld_unregister+0x29/0x40 [cxl_core]\n devres_release_all+0xb8/0x110\n device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70\n device_release_driver_internal+0x1d2/0x210\n bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x150\n device_del+0x155/0x3e0\n device_unregister+0x13/0x60\n devm_release_action+0x4d/0x90\n ? __pfx_unregister_port+0x10/0x10 [cxl_core]\n delete_endpoint+0x121/0x130 [cxl_core]\n devres_release_all+0xb8/0x110\n device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70\n device_release_driver_internal+0x1d2/0x210\n bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x150\n device_del+0x155/0x3e0\n ? lock_release+0x142/0x290\n cdev_device_del+0x15/0x50\n cxl_memdev_unregister+0x54/0x70 [cxl_core]\n\nThis crash is due to the clearing out the cxl_memdev's driver context\n(@cxlds) before the subsystem is done with it. This is ultimately due to\nthe region(s), that this memdev is a member, being torn down and expecting\nto be able to de-reference @cxlds, like here:\n\nstatic int cxl_region_decode_reset(struct cxl_region *cxlr, int count)\n...\n if (cxlds-\u003ercd)\n goto endpoint_reset;\n...\n\nFix it by keeping the driver context valid until memdev-device\nunregistration, and subsequently the entire stack of related\ndependencies, unwinds." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9cc238c7a526dba9ee8c210fa2828886fc65db66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20bd0198bebdd706bd4614b3933ef70d7c19618f"},{"version":"9cc238c7a526dba9ee8c210fa2828886fc65db66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c7371b41a14e86f53e7dbe5baa7b1d3e0ab324b"},{"version":"9cc238c7a526dba9ee8c210fa2828886fc65db66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cad22a757029c3a1985c221a2d4a6491ad4035ae"},{"version":"9cc238c7a526dba9ee8c210fa2828886fc65db66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ca074f7d788627a4e0b047ca5fbdb5fc567220c"},{"version":"9cc238c7a526dba9ee8c210fa2828886fc65db66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88d3917f82ed4215a2154432c26de1480a61b209"},{"version":"964a9834492210f48b360baa9e20a9eedf4d08ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.14.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.139","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.63","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7","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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