Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 4, 2025

cpufreq: davinci: Fix clk use after free

CVE-2023-53544

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

The remove function first frees the clks and only then calls cpufreq_unregister_driver(). If one of the cpufreq callbacks is called just before cpufreq_unregister_driver() is run, the freed clks might be used.

Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
Linux/Linuxv5
Range: 2.6.33

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d8f384a9b4fc50f6a18405f1c08e5a87a77b5b3mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/66b3bbe6fbd8dd410868e5b53ac3944a934b9310mitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5f024d0e6f91e05c816ad4ee8837173369dd5cbmitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab05ae4ab831f64bbc427592c86f599ed9c4324fmitre

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