CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53349
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-17
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 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:
media: ov2740: Fix memleak in ov2740_init_controls()
There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/ov2740.c with bpf mock
device:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881090e19e0 (size 16):
comm "51-i2c-ov2740", pid 278, jiffies 4294781584 (age 23.613s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
00 f3 7c 0b 81 88 ff ff 80 75 6a 09 81 88 ff ff ..|......uj.....
backtrace:
[<000000004e9fad8f>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0
[<0000000039c802f4>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180
[<000000009b8b5c63>] v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x11d/0x180
[videodev]
[<0000000038644056>] ov2740_probe+0x37d/0x84f [ov2740]
[<0000000092489f59>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680
[<000000001038babe>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0
[<0000000098c7af1c>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170
[<00000000e1b3dc24>] device_driver_attach+0x34/0x80
[<000000005a04a34d>] bind_store+0x10b/0x1a0
[<00000000ce25d4f2>] drv_attr_store+0x49/0x70
[<000000007d9f4e9a>] sysfs_kf_write+0x8c/0xb0
[<00000000be6cff0f>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x216/0x2e0
[<0000000031ddb40a>] vfs_write+0x658/0x810
[<0000000041beecdd>] ksys_write+0xd6/0x1b0
[<0000000023755840>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[<00000000b2cc2da2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
ov2740_init_controls() won't clean all the allocated resources in fail
path, which may causes the memleaks. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() to
prevent memleak.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 5.10.173)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.99)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d899592ed7829d0d5140853bac4d58742a6b8af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3969b2ebc66039306f505c7c630c5530800f83c0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c405ee63447f14eefcfe12a18aa749abbd596ea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a163ee11345d8322321c28bd61631de32455b987 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc33380ae06f438b652f66b9370b543976ac8a03 Patch