CVE-2023-53181 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 15
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure
Currently dma_resv_get_fences() will leak the previously
allocated array if the fence iteration got restarted and
the krealloc_array() fails.
Free the old array by hand, and make sure we still clear
the returned *fences so the caller won't end up accessing
freed memory. Some (but not all) of the callers of
dma_resv_get_fences() seem to still trawl through the
array even whe…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxd3c80698c9f58a0683badf78793eebaa0c71afbd — 19e7b9f1f7e1cb92a4cc53b4c064f7fb4b1f1983+3
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-pjxh-qq38-qww3: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure
Currently dma_resv_get_fenc↗2025-09-15
OSV▶
CVE-2023-53181: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure Currently dma_resv_get_fences↗2025-09-15