# 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-2023-54309"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:23:41.834Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:59:28.525Z"
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-2023-54309"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54309.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54309"
title: "tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation\n\n/dev/vtpmx is made visible before 'workqueue' is initialized, which can\nlead to a memory corruption in the worst case scenario.\n\nAddress this by initializing 'workqueue' as the very first step of the\ndriver initialization."
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