CVE-2023-53300 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 16

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls() hi846_init_controls doesn't clean the allocated ctrl_hdlr in case there is a failure, which causes memleak. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free to free the resource properly.

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

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.16 — 6.1.28+2
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.37-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxe8c0882685f9152f0d729664a12bcbe749cb7736 — fd22e8c8c38fb40f130d3a60e52c59996a5bbae9+4
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m2r3-wmc2-rq6q: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls() hi846_init_controls doesn't c↗2025-09-16
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OSV
CVE-2023-53300: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls() hi846_init_controls doesn't cle↗2025-09-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls()↗2025-09-16
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Debian
CVE-2023-53300: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hi84...↗2023
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