# 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-2023-53515"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:46:03.192Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:46:28.049Z"
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-2023-53515"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53515.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53515"
title: "virtio-mmio: don't break lifecycle of vm_dev"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio-mmio: don't break lifecycle of vm_dev\n\nvm_dev has a separate lifecycle because it has a 'struct device'\nembedded. Thus, having a release callback for it is correct.\n\nAllocating the vm_dev struct with devres totally breaks this protection,\nthough. Instead of waiting for the vm_dev release callback, the memory\nis freed when the platform_device is removed. Resulting in a\nuse-after-free when finally the callback is to be called.\n\nTo easily see the problem, compile the kernel with\nCONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE and unbind with sysfs.\n\nThe fix is easy, don't use devres in this case.\n\nFound during my research about object lifetime problems."
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