CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53611
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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:
ipmi_si: fix a memleak in try_smi_init()
Kmemleak reported the following leak info in try_smi_init():
unreferenced object 0xffff00018ecf9400 (size 1024):
comm "modprobe", pid 2707763, jiffies 4300851415 (age 773.308s)
backtrace:
[<000000004ca5b312>] __kmalloc+0x4b8/0x7b0
[<00000000953b1072>] try_smi_init+0x148/0x5dc [ipmi_si]
[<000000006460d325>] 0xffff800081b10148
[<0000000039206ea5>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2a4
[<00000000601399ce>] do_init_module+0x50/0x300
[<000000003c12ba3c>] load_module+0x7a8/0x9e0
[<00000000c246fffe>] __se_sys_init_module+0x104/0x180
[<00000000eea99093>] __arm64_sys_init_module+0x24/0x30
[<0000000021b1ef87>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x94/0x250
[<0000000070f4f8b7>] do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe0
[<000000005a05337f>] el0_svc+0x24/0x3c
[<000000005eb248d6>] el0_sync_handler+0x160/0x164
[<0000000030a59039>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180
The problem was that when an error occurred before handlers registration
and after allocating `new_smi->si_sm`, the variable wouldn't be freed in
the error handling afterwards since `shutdown_smi()` hadn't been
registered yet. Fix it by adding a `kfree()` in the error handling path
in `try_smi_init()`.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09cb2a71b2e982015fe0464f28da1ab42b8e6375 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bfcfea0fae0d0a6c6ff5543e6d704b3807b83ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c5f02e16b919c8cb6024dc3778c8d8f1fb1f26b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cf1a126de2992b4efe1c3c4d398f8de4aed6e3f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7291af9a738d936c2d6869d030711dceb68404d0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9bc8fbb2d416ce87f0342478dc9fcfd79f2c65f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb7d8a4b4beb3061b3a1847a742983a01dca381 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f53ab5a2bf20fed59a2f7542d3453228b8056358 Patch