# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53484"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:52.590Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:28.750Z"
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-2023-53484"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53484.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53484"
title: "lib: cpu_rmap: Avoid use after free on rmap-\u003eobj array entries"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlib: cpu_rmap: Avoid use after free on rmap-\u003eobj array entries\n\nWhen calling irq_set_affinity_notifier() with NULL at the notify\nargument, it will cause freeing of the glue pointer in the\ncorresponding array entry but will leave the pointer in the array. A\nsubsequent call to free_irq_cpu_rmap() will try to free this entry again\nleading to possible use after free.\n\nFix that by setting NULL to the array entry and checking that we have\nnon-zero at the array entry when iterating over the array in\nfree_irq_cpu_rmap().\n\nThe current code does not suffer from this since there are no cases\nwhere irq_set_affinity_notifier(irq, NULL) (note the NULL passed for the\nnotify arg) is called, followed by a call to free_irq_cpu_rmap() so we\ndon't hit and issue. Subsequent patches in this series excersize this\nflow, hence the required fix."
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