CVE-2023-53448 (GCVE-0-2023-53448)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:45
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Title
fbdev: imxfb: Removed unneeded release_mem_region
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: imxfb: Removed unneeded release_mem_region Remove unnecessary release_mem_region from the error path to prevent mem region from being released twice, which could avoid resource leak or other unexpected issues.
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Linux Linux Affected: b083c22d51148f3d3028291343196471be5d9f36 , < 6aa851f6276fa08cd59b044bc2b803c49edf58a2 (git)
Affected: b083c22d51148f3d3028291343196471be5d9f36 , < 38282a92c30422836d49e519bd109237f86a0888 (git)
Affected: b083c22d51148f3d3028291343196471be5d9f36 , < 45fcc058a75bf5d65cf4c32da44a252fbe873cd4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.42 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.7 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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