CVE-2023-54072: linux

CVSS: UnknownDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54072DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54072
Published 24-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-54072 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 12
RHSA-2024:2394RHSA-2024:3138SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1

Timeline

  1. 24-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix potential data race at PCM memory allocation helpers The PCM memory allocation helpers have a sanity check against too many buffer allocations. However, the check is performed without a proper lock and the allocation isn't serialized; this allows user to allocate more memories than predefined max size. Practically seen, this isn't really a big problem, as it's more or less some "soft limit" as a sanity check, and it's not possible to allocate unlimitedly. But it's still better to address this for more consistent behavior. The patch covers the size check in do_alloc_pages() with the card->memory_mutex, and increases the allocated size there for preventing the further overflow. When the actual allocation fails, the size is decreased accordingly.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu125 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-169.187 | < 5.15.0-91.101
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-1116.126 | < 5.15.0-1051.56
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.52-1 | < 6.4.4-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 95b30a4312545f2dde9db12bf6a425f35d5a0d77, < 7e1d1456c8db9949459c5a24e8845cfe92430b0f | ≥ d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e, < 7e11c58b2620a22c67a5ae28d64ce383890ee9f4 | ≥ d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e, < a0ab49e7a758b488b2090171a75d50735c0876f6 | ≥ d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e, < 3eb4e47a94e3f76521d7d344696db61e6a9619c7 | ≥ d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e, < 773ccad902f67583a58b5650a2f8d8daf2e76fac | ≥ d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e, < bd55842ed998a622ba6611fe59b3358c9f76773d | 5.6

3 vendors · 127 products

References

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