CVE-2023-53096 (GCVE-0-2023-53096)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:38
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Title
interconnect: fix mem leak when freeing nodes
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: interconnect: fix mem leak when freeing nodes The node link array is allocated when adding links to a node but is not deallocated when nodes are destroyed.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < f1e3a20c60196c37a402c584d0c9de306ba988ce (git)
Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < efae80ca13faa94457208852825731da44a788ad (git)
Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < 2e0b13a1827229a02abef97b50ffaf89ba25370a (git)
Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < 3167306455d0fbbbcf08cb25651acc527a86a95e (git)
Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < c1722e4113281fb34e5b4fb5c5387b17cd39a537 (git)
Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < a5904f415e1af72fa8fe6665aa4f554dc2099a95 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.238 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.176 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.104 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.21 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.8 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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