CVE-2023-54294: md/raid10: fix memleak of md thread

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54294DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54294
Published 30-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-54294 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 11.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 5
RHSA-2023:6583RHSA-2023:7077RHSA-2023:7539SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1SUSE-SU-2026:0316-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1

Timeline

  1. 30-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix memleak of md thread In raid10_run(), if setup_conf() succeed and raid10_run() failed before setting 'mddev->thread', then in the error path 'conf->thread' is not freed. Fix the problem by setting 'mddev->thread' right after setup_conf().

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu120 products
  • linux< 5.4.0-162.179 | < 5.15.0-79.86
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.4.0-1109.118 | < 5.15.0-1042.47
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.37-1 | < 6.3.7-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < abf4d67060c8f63caff096e5fca1564bfef1e5d4 | ≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < 3725b35fc0e5e4eea0434ef625f3d92f3059d080 | ≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < 2a65555f7e0f4a05b663879908a991e6d9f81e51 | ≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < d6cfcf98b824591cffa4c1e9889fb4fa619359fe | ≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < 36ba0c7b86acd9c2ea80a273204d52c21c955471 | ≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < 5d763f708b0f918fb87799e33c25113ae6081216 | ≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < ec473e82e10d39a02eb59b0b95e546119a3bdb79 | ≥ 43a521238aca0e24d50add1db125a61bda2a3527, < f0ddb83da3cbbf8a1f9087a642c448ff52ee9abd | 4.16

3 vendors · 122 products

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