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CVE-2023-54309

tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation /dev/vtpmx is made visible before 'workqueue' is initialized, which can lead to a memory corruption in the worst case scenario. Address this by initializing 'workqueue' as the very first step of the driver initialization.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before 509d21f1c4bb9d35d397fca3226165b156a7639f; affected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before 04e8697d26613ccea760cf57eb20a5a27f788c0f; affected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before 86b9820395f226b8f33cbae9599deebf8af1ce72; affected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before 9ff7fcb3a2ed0e9b895bb5b4c13872d584a8815b; affected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before e08295290c53a3cf174c236721747a01b9550ae2; affected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before 99b998fb9d7d2d2d9dbb3e19db2d0ade02f5a604; affected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before 092db954e2c3c5ba6c0ce990c7da72cf8f3b9c51; affected 6f99612e250041a2402d3b1694bccb149cd424a4 before f4032d615f90970d6c3ac1d9c0bce3351eb4445c
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.8; unaffected 0 before 4.8; unaffected 4.14.322 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.291 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.251 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.188 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.121 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.40 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.4.5 through 6.4.*; unaffected 6.5 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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