Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53515

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - virtio-mmio: don't break lifecycle of vmdev vmdev has a separate lifecycle because it has a 'struct device' embedded. Thus, having a release callback for it is...

CVE-2023-53515

CVE-2023-53515 affects the Linux kernel virtio-mmio subsystem. The issue stems from allocating vm_dev with devres, which breaks the vm_dev lifecycle tied to a struct device; when the platform_device is removed, the memory is freed before vm_dev release, causing a use-after-free when the release c...