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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53138"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:56:10.372Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:12:53.138Z"
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-2023-53138"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53138.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53138"
title: "net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()\n\nsyzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1].  This\ncauses a stack trace like below:\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\nWorkqueue: netns cleanup_net\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313\n print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]\n kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491\n cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138\n notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87\n call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945\n call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]\n call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]\n netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline]\n netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0 net/core/dev.c:10341\n default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334\n ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:167\n cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594\n process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289\n worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436\n kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nWhen unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify()\nsets the device's reg_state to NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers\nwith NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list.\n\nLater on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo().\nnetdev_run_todo() waits devices' reference count become 1 while\nrebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.\n\nWhen cfusbl_device_notify() is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple\ntimes, the parent device might be freed.  This could cause UAF.\nProcessing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of\nreference count for the module.\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER\nnotification."
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