CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53518

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-01 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-10-01
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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: PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release() srcu_init_notifier_head() allocates resources that need to be released with a srcu_cleanup_notifier_head() call. Reported by kmemleak.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.7 < 4.14.326) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.295) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.257) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.195) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.132) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.53) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.5.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References