# CVE-2023-53003: EDAC/qcom: Do not pass llcc\_driv\_data as edac\_device\_ctl\_info's pvt\_info

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-03-27 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.20

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/qcom: Do not pass llcc_driv_data as edac_device_ctl_info's pvt_info The memory for llcc_driv_data is allocated by the LLCC driver. But when it is passed as the private driver info to the EDAC core, it will get freed during the qcom_edac driver release. So when the qcom_edac driver gets probed again, it will try to use the freed data leading to the use-after-free bug. Hence, do not pass llcc_driv_data as pvt_info but rather reference it using the platform_data pointer in the qcom_edac driver.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66e10d5f399629ef7877304d9ba2b35d0474e7eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76d9ebb7f0bc10fbc78b6d576751552edf743968
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bff5243bd32661cf9ce66f6d9210fc8f89bda145
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f0351d0c311951b8b3064db91e61841e85b2b96
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/977c6ba624f24ae20cf0faee871257a39348d4a9

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