CVE-2023-53544 (GCVE-0-2023-53544)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-04 15:16
Modified
2025-10-04 15:16
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: davinci: Fix clk use after free
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.
References
Impacted products
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