CVE-2023-53349 (GCVE-0-2023-53349)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-17 14:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:43
VLAI
Title
media: ov2740: Fix memleak in ov2740_init_controls()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: ov2740: Fix memleak in ov2740_init_controls() There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/ov2740.c with bpf mock device: unreferenced object 0xffff8881090e19e0 (size 16): comm "51-i2c-ov2740", pid 278, jiffies 4294781584 (age 23.613s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 00 f3 7c 0b 81 88 ff ff 80 75 6a 09 81 88 ff ff ..|......uj..... backtrace: [<000000004e9fad8f>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0 [<0000000039c802f4>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180 [<000000009b8b5c63>] v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x11d/0x180 [videodev] [<0000000038644056>] ov2740_probe+0x37d/0x84f [ov2740] [<0000000092489f59>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680 [<000000001038babe>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0 [<0000000098c7af1c>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170 [<00000000e1b3dc24>] device_driver_attach+0x34/0x80 [<000000005a04a34d>] bind_store+0x10b/0x1a0 [<00000000ce25d4f2>] drv_attr_store+0x49/0x70 [<000000007d9f4e9a>] sysfs_kf_write+0x8c/0xb0 [<00000000be6cff0f>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x216/0x2e0 [<0000000031ddb40a>] vfs_write+0x658/0x810 [<0000000041beecdd>] ksys_write+0xd6/0x1b0 [<0000000023755840>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [<00000000b2cc2da2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd ov2740_init_controls() won't clean all the allocated resources in fail path, which may causes the memleaks. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() to prevent memleak.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 866edc895171f1256aad3e81dce193447955c202 , < a163ee11345d8322321c28bd61631de32455b987 (git)
Affected: 866edc895171f1256aad3e81dce193447955c202 , < 3969b2ebc66039306f505c7c630c5530800f83c0 (git)
Affected: 866edc895171f1256aad3e81dce193447955c202 , < fc33380ae06f438b652f66b9370b543976ac8a03 (git)
Affected: 866edc895171f1256aad3e81dce193447955c202 , < 7c405ee63447f14eefcfe12a18aa749abbd596ea (git)
Affected: 866edc895171f1256aad3e81dce193447955c202 , < 2d899592ed7829d0d5140853bac4d58742a6b8af (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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