CVE-2023-54309

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation /dev/vtpmx is made visible before 'workqueue' is initialized, which can lead to a memory corruption in the worst case scenario. Address this by initializing 'workqueue' as the very first step of the driver initialization.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04e8697d26613ccea760cf57eb20a5a27f788c0f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/092db954e2c3c5ba6c0ce990c7da72cf8f3b9c51
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/509d21f1c4bb9d35d397fca3226165b156a7639f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86b9820395f226b8f33cbae9599deebf8af1ce72
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99b998fb9d7d2d2d9dbb3e19db2d0ade02f5a604
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ff7fcb3a2ed0e9b895bb5b4c13872d584a8815b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e08295290c53a3cf174c236721747a01b9550ae2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4032d615f90970d6c3ac1d9c0bce3351eb4445c