# 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-2026-53384"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T11:59:32.153Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:45.552Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53384"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53384.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53384"
title: "serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails\n\ndw8250_probe() registers the 8250 port via serial8250_register_8250_port()\nand then, if the device has a clock, registers a clock notifier. If\nclk_notifier_register() fails, probe returns the error but leaves the\n8250 port registered. The matching serial8250_unregister_port() lives\nin dw8250_remove(), which is not called when probe fails, so the port\nslot stays occupied until the device is rebound or the system is\nrebooted. The devm-allocated driver data is freed while the port still\nreferences it (via the saved private_data and serial_in/serial_out\ncallbacks), so any access to that port slot before a rebind is a\nuse-after-free hazard.\n\nUnregister the port on the clk_notifier_register() error path."
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