CVE-2026-23464 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.3MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 3
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: microchip: mpfs: Fix memory leak in mpfs_sys_controller_probe()
In mpfs_sys_controller_probe(), if of_get_mtd_device_by_node() fails,
the function returns immediately without freeing the allocated memory
for sys_controller, leading to a memory leak.
Fix this by jumping to the out_free label to ensure the memory is
properly freed.
Also, consolidate the error handling for the mbox_request_channel()
failure case to use the…
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux742aa6c563d29c367edbf0ef7236a7a853ed9be4 — da4b44c42f40501db35f5d0a6243708a061490a0+4
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2026-23464: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: microchip: mpfs: Fix memory leak in mpfs_sys_controller_probe() In mpfs_sys_c↗2026-04-03
GHSA▶
GHSA-45hw-xggf-p88g: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: microchip: mpfs: Fix memory leak in mpfs_sys_controller_probe()
In mpfs_sys↗2026-04-03