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CVE-2023-53801 (GCVE-0-2023-53801)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:51
VLAI
Title
iommu/sprd: Release dma buffer to avoid memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/sprd: Release dma buffer to avoid memory leak When attaching to a domain, the driver would alloc a DMA buffer which is used to store address mapping table, and it need to be released when the IOMMU domain is freed.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b23e4fc4e3faed0b8b604079c44a244da3ec941a , < 92c089a931fd3939cd32318cf4f54e69e8f51a19 (git)
Affected: b23e4fc4e3faed0b8b604079c44a244da3ec941a , < 8745f3592ee4a7b49ede16ddd3f12a41ecaa23c9 (git)
Affected: b23e4fc4e3faed0b8b604079c44a244da3ec941a , < d0a917fd5e3b3ed9d9306b4260ba684b982da9f3 (git)
Affected: b23e4fc4e3faed0b8b604079c44a244da3ec941a , < 9afea57384d4ae7b2034593eac7fa76c7122762a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.113 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.81 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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