CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53674

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-07 Modified 2026-10-28 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-10-07
Last modified
2026-10-28
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: clk: Fix memory leak in devm_clk_notifier_register() devm_clk_notifier_register() allocates a devres resource for clk notifier but didn't register that to the device, so the notifier didn't get unregistered on device detach and the allocated resource was leaked. Fix the issue by registering the resource through devres_add(). This issue was found with kmemleak on a Chromebook.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.121) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.39) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.13) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.4.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References