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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54072"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T12:23:15.552Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:54:55.996Z"
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-2023-54072"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54072.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54072"
title: "ALSA: pcm: Fix potential data race at PCM memory allocation helpers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: pcm: Fix potential data race at PCM memory allocation helpers\n\nThe PCM memory allocation helpers have a sanity check against too many\nbuffer allocations.  However, the check is performed without a proper\nlock and the allocation isn't serialized; this allows user to allocate\nmore memories than predefined max size.\n\nPractically seen, this isn't really a big problem, as it's more or\nless some \"soft limit\" as a sanity check, and it's not possible to\nallocate unlimitedly.  But it's still better to address this for more\nconsistent behavior.\n\nThe patch covers the size check in do_alloc_pages() with the\ncard-\u003ememory_mutex, and increases the allocated size there for\npreventing the further overflow.  When the actual allocation fails,\nthe size is decreased accordingly."
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