# CVE-2023-54083: phy: tegra: xusb: Clear the driver reference in usb-phy dev

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-24 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.7

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: tegra: xusb: Clear the driver reference in usb-phy dev For the dual-role port, it will assign the phy dev to usb-phy dev and use the port dev driver as the dev driver of usb-phy. When we try to destroy the port dev, it will destroy its dev driver as well. But we did not remove the reference from usb-phy dev. This might cause the use-after-free issue in KASAN.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6a107c52073496d2e5d2837915f59fb3103832f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b84998a407a882991916b1a61d987c400d8a0ce6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/238edc04ddb9d272b38f5419bcd419ad3b92b91b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82187460347ad58fd6b06d2883da73c3f2df9631
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0c2fcb1325d0d4f3b322b5ee49385f8eca2560d

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