CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53546

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-04
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: net/mlx5: DR, fix memory leak in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx when mlx5_cmd_exec failed in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx, the memory pointed by 'in' is not released, which will cause memory leak. Move memory release after mlx5_cmd_exec.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4 < 5.4.253) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.190) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.126) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.45) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.10) • linux linux kernel 6.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References