CVE-2023-52859: perf: hisi: Fix use-after-free when register pmu fails

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• linux linux kernel5.13 and later · before 5.15.139
• linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 6.1.63
• linux linux kernel6.2 and later · before 6.5.12
• linux linux kernel6.6 and later · before 6.6.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Linux Linux

  • 5.13affected
  • 3bf30882c3c7b6e376d9d6d04082c9aa2d2ac30a and later · before 0e1e88bba286621b886218363de07b319d6208b2affected · git
  • 3bf30882c3c7b6e376d9d6d04082c9aa2d2ac30a and later · before b660420f449d094b1fabfa504889810b3a63cdd5affected · git
  • 3bf30882c3c7b6e376d9d6d04082c9aa2d2ac30a and later · before 3405f364f82d4f5407a8b4c519dc15d24b847fdaaffected · git
  • 3bf30882c3c7b6e376d9d6d04082c9aa2d2ac30a and later · before 75bab28ffd05ec8879c197890b1bd1dfec8d3f63affected · git
  • 3bf30882c3c7b6e376d9d6d04082c9aa2d2ac30a and later · before b805cafc604bfdb671fae7347a57f51154afa735affected · git
  • before 5.13not affected · semver
  • 5.15.139 and later · up to and including 5.15.*not affected · semver
  • 6.1.63 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver
  • 6.5.12 and later · up to and including 6.5.*not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-31431crypto: algif_aead - Revert to operating out-of-placeKEV
  90Now
• CVE-2022-0847A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe KEV
  89Now
• CVE-2021-22555Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACEKEV
  85Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2023-52857May 21, 2024 · drm/mediatek: Fix coverity issue with unintentional integer overflow
  22Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2023-52858May 21, 2024 · clk: mediatek: clk-mt7629: Add check for mtk_alloc_clk_data
  24Monitor
• Later →CVE-2023-52860May 21, 2024 · drivers/perf: hisi: use cpuhp_state_remove_instance_nocalls() for hisi_hns3_pmu uninit process
  22Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1free(dev->buf);2/* ... another thread is still running ... */3process(dev->buf);

1lock(&dev->lock);2free(dev->buf);3dev->buf = NULL;4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.