# 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-2023-53446"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-18T16:04:21.939Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:09.783Z"
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-2023-53446"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53446.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53446"
title: "PCI/ASPM: Disable ASPM on MFD function removal to avoid use-after-free"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI/ASPM: Disable ASPM on MFD function removal to avoid use-after-free\n\nStruct pcie_link_state-\u003edownstream is a pointer to the pci_dev of function\n0.  Previously we retained that pointer when removing function 0, and\nsubsequent ASPM policy changes dereferenced it, resulting in a\nuse-after-free warning from KASAN, e.g.:\n\n  # echo 1 \u003e /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/remove\n  # echo powersave \u003e /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pcie_config_aspm_link+0x42d/0x500\n  Call Trace:\n   kasan_report+0xae/0xe0\n   pcie_config_aspm_link+0x42d/0x500\n   pcie_aspm_set_policy+0x8e/0x1a0\n   param_attr_store+0x162/0x2c0\n   module_attr_store+0x3e/0x80\n\nPCIe spec r6.0, sec 7.5.3.7, recommends that software program the same ASPM\nControl value in all functions of multi-function devices.\n\nDisable ASPM and free the pcie_link_state when any child function is\nremoved so we can discard the dangling pcie_link_state-\u003edownstream pointer\nand maintain the same ASPM Control configuration for all functions.\n\n[bhelgaas: commit log and comment]"
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