CVE-2023-53488

Updated on 01 Oct 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

IB/hfi1: Fix possible panic during hotplug remove

During hotplug remove it is possible that the update counters work might be pending, and may run after memory has been freed. Cancel the update counters work before freeing memory.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)

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

IB/hfi1: Fix possible panic during hotplug remove

During hotplug remove it is possible that the update counters work might be pending, and may run after memory has been freed. Cancel the update counters work before freeing memory.

Fixes