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FKIE_CVE-2023-54273

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-30 13:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:47

Severity

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: Fix leak of dev tracker At the stage of direction checks, the netdev reference tracker is already initialized, but released with wrong *_put() call.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d16c515059b3746f2d6a24a74c3ba786a68c2a1
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec8f32ad9a65a8cbb465b69e154aaec9d2fe45c4

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "vulnStatus": "Deferred"
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CVE-2023-54273 (GCVE-0-2023-54273)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:58

Title

xfrm: Fix leak of dev tracker

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d16c515059b3746f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec8f32ad9a65a8cbb…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 919e43fad5163a8ceb39826ecdee897a9f799351 , < 7d16c515059b3746f2d6a24a74c3ba786a68c2a1 (git) Affected: 919e43fad5163a8ceb39826ecdee897a9f799351 , < ec8f32ad9a65a8cbb465b69e154aaec9d2fe45c4 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.2 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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