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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-54044" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T12:22:56.072Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:54:26.074Z" 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-2023-54044" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54044.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54044" title: "spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver\n\nWhen removing a SPMI driver, there can be a crash due to NULL pointer\ndereference if it does not have a remove callback defined. This is\none such call trace observed when removing the QCOM SPMI PMIC driver:\n\n dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8\n dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x16c\n panic+0x188/0x498\n __cfi_slowpath+0x0/0x214\n __cfi_slowpath+0x1dc/0x214\n spmi_drv_remove+0x16c/0x1e0\n device_release_driver_internal+0x468/0x79c\n driver_detach+0x11c/0x1a0\n bus_remove_driver+0xc4/0x124\n driver_unregister+0x58/0x84\n cleanup_module+0x1c/0xc24 [qcom_spmi_pmic]\n __do_sys_delete_module+0x3ec/0x53c\n __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x18/0x28\n el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x294\n el0_svc+0x38/0x9c\n el0_sync_handler+0x8c/0xf0\n el0_sync+0x1b4/0x1c0\n\nIf a driver has all its resources allocated through devm_() APIs and\ndoes not need any other explicit cleanup, it would not require a\nremove callback to be defined. Hence, add a check for remove callback\npresence before calling it when removing a SPMI driver." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b95a69214daea4aab1c8bad96571d988a62e2c97"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"699949219e35fe29fd42ccf8cd92c989c3d15109"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"54dda732225555dc6d660e95793c54a0a44b612c"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c45ab3ab9c371c9ac22bbe1217e5abb2e55a3d4b"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee0b6146317a98bfec848d7bde5586beb245a38f"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"428cc252701d6864151f3a296ffc23e1e49a7408"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af763c29b9e7040fedd0077bca053b101438a3a4"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f3ef30c1c05502f5de3b73b3715d5994845c1b4"},{"version":"5a86bf343976b9c8ab2f240bc866451fa67e5573","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b56eef3e16d888883fefab47425036de80dd38fc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"4.14.315","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.283","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.243","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","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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