CVE-2023-53617
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Publication date: 2025-10-07
Last updated on: 2026-02-05
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: aspeed: socinfo: Add kfree for kstrdup
Add kfree() in the later error handling in order to avoid memory leak.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.5 |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.11 (inc) to 5.15.128 (inc) |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-401 | The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a memory leak in the Linux kernel's aspeed socinfo driver. Specifically, the issue arises because the function kfree() was missing after a kstrdup() call in error handling code, which caused allocated memory not to be freed properly. The fix involved adding kfree() to prevent this memory leak.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The memory leak caused by this vulnerability can lead to increased memory usage over time, potentially degrading system performance or causing instability if the leaked memory accumulates significantly.
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