CVE-2023-53682 — 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 98.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 7

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (xgene) Fix ioremap and memremap leak Smatch reports: drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c:757 xgene_hwmon_probe() warn: 'ctx->pcc_comm_addr' from ioremap() not released on line: 757. This is because in drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c:701 xgene_hwmon_probe(), ioremap and memremap is not released, which may cause a leak. To fix this, ioremap and memremap is modified to devm_ioremap and devm_memremap. [groeck: Fixed formatting and…

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_kernel4.9 — 6.1.25+2
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.25-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxed42cfa881e1d8d9603b7cb872199e3c8e0d1b19 — 9d482a09acd3d5f61a56aefc125d32c81994707b+3
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.25-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2023-53682: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (xgene) Fix ioremap and memremap leak Smatch reports: drivers/hwmon/xgene-h↗2025-10-07
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GHSA
GHSA-hvv3-fjwq-p2f6: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (xgene) Fix ioremap and memremap leak Smatch reports: drivers/hwmon/xgen↗2025-10-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: hwmon: (xgene) Fix ioremap and memremap leak↗2025-10-07
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Debian
CVE-2023-53682: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (xge...↗2023
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