CVE-2023-53697 (GCVE-0-2023-53697)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu()
Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function
'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function
'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 500a6ff9c2a81348fe0f04e2deb758145e8ab94e
(git)
Affected: 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 4999f2ec5fde7c45e3ecafda5b78560cc1c7bdb5 (git) Affected: 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 16259c80542ee8945aaa39cfc6a1809bcdc08ffe (git) Affected: 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 85ae42c72142346645e63c33835da947dfa008b3 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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