CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-52902
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nommu: fix memory leak in do_mmap() error path
The preallocation of the maple tree nodes may leak if the error path to
"error_just_free" is taken. Fix this by moving the freeing of the maple
tree nodes to a shared location for all error paths.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness