CVE-2023-53367 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/habanalabs: fix mem leak in capture user mappings This commit fixes a memory leak caused when clearing the user_mappings info when a new context is opened immediately after user_mapping is captured and a hard reset is performed.

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 Packages5 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.1 — 6.4.12
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.4.13-1+1
▶CVEListV5linux/linux0feaf86d4e69507ab9b2af7dcc63a6886352d5db — 973e0890e5264cb075ef668661cad06b67777121+2
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.4.13-1 (forky)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2023-53367: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/habanalabs: fix mem leak in capture user mappings This commit fixes a memory↗2025-09-17
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GHSA
GHSA-mhx5-8p5w-32cq: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/habanalabs: fix mem leak in capture user mappings This commit fixes a memo↗2025-09-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
kernel: accel/habanalabs: fix mem leak in capture user mappings↗2025-09-17
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Microsoft
accel/habanalabs: fix mem leak in capture user mappings↗2025-09-09
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Debian
CVE-2023-53367: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: accel/haban...↗2023
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CVE-2023-53367 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase