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        "cveId": "CVE-2023-53693",
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        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-10-22T13:21:37.344Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-10-22T13:23:35.280Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:50:01.014Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: gadget: Fix the memory leak in raw_gadget driver\n\nCurrently, increasing raw_dev->count happens before invoke the\nraw_queue_event(), if the raw_queue_event() return error, invoke\nraw_release() will not trigger the dev_free() to be called.\n\n[  268.905865][ T5067] raw-gadget.0 gadget.0: failed to queue event\n[  268.912053][ T5067] udc dummy_udc.0: failed to start USB Raw Gadget: -12\n[  268.918885][ T5067] raw-gadget.0: probe of gadget.0 failed with error -12\n[  268.925956][ T5067] UDC core: USB Raw Gadget: couldn't find an available UDC or it's busy\n[  268.934657][ T5067] misc raw-gadget: fail, usb_gadget_register_driver returned -16\n\nBUG: memory leak\n\n[<ffffffff8154bf94>] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076\n[<ffffffff8347eb55>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]\n[<ffffffff8347eb55>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:703 [inline]\n[<ffffffff8347eb55>] dev_new drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:191 [inline]\n[<ffffffff8347eb55>] raw_open+0x45/0x110 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:385\n[<ffffffff827d1d09>] misc_open+0x1a9/0x1f0 drivers/char/misc.c:165\n\n[<ffffffff8154bf94>] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076\n[<ffffffff8347cd2f>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]\n[<ffffffff8347cd2f>] raw_ioctl_init+0xdf/0x410 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:460\n[<ffffffff8347dfe9>] raw_ioctl+0x5f9/0x1120 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:1250\n[<ffffffff81685173>] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n\n[<ffffffff8154bf94>] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076\n[<ffffffff833ecc6a>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]\n[<ffffffff833ecc6a>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:703 [inline]\n[<ffffffff833ecc6a>] dummy_alloc_request+0x5a/0xe0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:665\n[<ffffffff833e9132>] usb_ep_alloc_request+0x22/0xd0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:196\n[<ffffffff8347f13d>] gadget_bind+0x6d/0x370 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:292\n\nThis commit therefore invoke kref_get() under the condition that\nraw_queue_event() return success."
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