# CVE-2023-52584: spmi: mediatek: Fix UAF on device remove

- Severity: CVSS 3.8 (Low), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-03-06 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.17

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spmi: mediatek: Fix UAF on device remove The pmif driver data that contains the clocks is allocated along with spmi_controller. On device remove, spmi_controller will be freed first, and then devres , including the clocks, will be cleanup. This leads to UAF because putting the clocks will access the clocks in the pmif driver data, which is already freed along with spmi_controller. This can be reproduced by enabling DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE and building the kernel with KASAN. Fix the UAF issue by using unmanaged clk_bulk_get() and putting the clocks before freeing spmi_controller.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/521f28eedd6b14228c46e3b81e3bf9b90c2818d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8dcafcb54632536684336161da8bdd52120f95e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a3881b1f07db1bb55cb0108e6f05cfd027eaf2e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e821d50ab5b956ed0effa49faaf29912fd4106d9

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