Security Advisory

CVE-2023-54309

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-30 12:23:41
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:59:28
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.