In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: apple-admac: Fix 'current_tx' not getting freed In terminate_all we should queue up all submitted descriptors to be freed. We do that for the content of the 'issued' and 'submitted' lists, but the 'current_tx' descriptor falls through the cracks as it's removed from the 'issued' list once it gets assigned to be the current descriptor. Explicitly queue up freeing of the 'current_tx' descriptor to address a memory leak that is otherwise present.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-54188 is rated Low Risk (6.3/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.02% | 0.17% | +0.15% |
| 2 | 2025-12-31 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (2 records total)
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| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2023-54188 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-54188 |
redhat
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— | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54188 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2023-54188 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 315 product×package rows across 61 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3, … (61 product lines)): Known Not Affected 315. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54188/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2023-54188 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 173, not-affected 139, released 83. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-54188 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.0, < 6.1.25 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.0, < 6.2.12 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.0, < 6.3 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |