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xfrm: Fix leak of dev tracker
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.3.4
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-54273
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 14:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2023-54273
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.3.4
Complete source record
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