Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELMODULESINTERNAL-10019302
  • published5 May 2025
  • disclosed2 May 2025

Introduced: 2 May 2025

CVE-2023-53084  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-internal package and not the kernel-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL.

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

drm/shmem-helper: Remove another errant put in error path

drm_gem_shmem_mmap() doesn't own reference in error code path, resulting in the dma-buf shmem GEM object getting prematurely freed leading to a later use-after-free.