CVE-2023-54266 (GCVE-0-2023-54266)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-30 12:15
Modified
2025-12-30 12:15
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer() 'read' is freed when it is known to be NULL, but not when a read error occurs. Revert the logic to avoid a small leak, should a m920x_read() call fail.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 82ce3084892c0c0e006ec61f6144f2cc4e5ece88
Version: 7dca4428d7eb33c89979e620228fe557593fde66
Version: fe791612afabaeee9b911bd7b955985bcf5ff314
Version: 830e5d1b4344c2575020ee4bdf63fb48e2b56ce3
Version: 0c044e39d52abfbb4cb43dbc5a09c1dc1ed24648
Version: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27
Version: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27
Version: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27
Version: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27
Version: 08cb4f0da9926277101d18d817048e1328ac2563
Version: 273cac7a89712ba6b898214af150b71dc33abe0c
Version: b7e221dc8f23727e00a7fb6709b3318547a7c4d8
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