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CVE-2023-53651 (GCVE-0-2023-53651)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:19 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:15
VLAI
Title
Input: exc3000 - properly stop timer on shutdown
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: exc3000 - properly stop timer on shutdown We need to stop the timer on driver unbind or probe failures, otherwise we get UAF/Oops.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7e577a17f2eefeef32f1106ebf91e7cd143ba654 , < 526a177ac6353d65057eadb5d6edafc168f64484 (git)
Affected: 7e577a17f2eefeef32f1106ebf91e7cd143ba654 , < bee57c20fc0ca5ef9b9a53a0335eab2ac9e9cae1 (git)
Affected: 7e577a17f2eefeef32f1106ebf91e7cd143ba654 , < 79c81d137d36f9635bbcbc3916c0cccb418a61dd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.20 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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