CVE-2023-53488 IB/hfi1: Fix possible panic during hotplug remove

What is CVE-2023-53488?

CVE-2023-53488 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

IB/hfi1: Fix possible panic during hotplug remove

During hotplug remove it is possible that the update counters work might be pending, and may run after memory has been freed. Cancel the update counters work before freeing memory.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53488?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53488?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2023-53488 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53488 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53488, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53488, GHSA-67pv-grc5-6pf5, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53488.