CVE-2023-53505 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak The tegra and tegra needs to be freed in the error handling path, otherwise it will be leaked.

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_kernel4.2 — 5.4.251+5
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 — 801c8341f7aff07c494b53e627970b72635af5d3+7
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2023-53505: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak The tegra and tegra needs to b↗2025-10-01
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GHSA
GHSA-5whm-xp9m-869g: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak The tegra and tegra needs to↗2025-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak↗2025-10-01
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Debian
CVE-2023-53505: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: tegra:...↗2023
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