CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53435

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-18
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: cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one() cas_saturn_firmware_init() allocates some memory using vmalloc(). This memory is freed in the .remove() function but not it the error handling path of the probe. Add the missing vfree() to avoid a memory leak, should an error occur.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.28 < 4.14.316) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.284) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.244) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.181) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.113) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.30) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.4) • linux linux kernel 6.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References