CVE-2023-53482 (GCVE-0-2023-53482)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:45
VLAI
Title
iommu: Fix error unwind in iommu_group_alloc()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Fix error unwind in iommu_group_alloc() If either iommu_group_grate_file() fails then the iommu_group is leaked. Destroy it on these error paths. Found by kselftest/iommu/iommufd_fail_nth
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bc7d12b91bd35477fd650c4d72b61239de9d9066 , < f119ef452e2d82d912797273cb790a86f1125b3e (git)
Affected: bc7d12b91bd35477fd650c4d72b61239de9d9066 , < 4c23124b45ee0aa895ed8d5d08871ae6b15ee336 (git)
Affected: bc7d12b91bd35477fd650c4d72b61239de9d9066 , < 8602fa38a63fc689eca29c8c586fac2d8a1f8739 (git)
Affected: bc7d12b91bd35477fd650c4d72b61239de9d9066 , < 4daa861174d56023c2068ddb03de0752f07fa199 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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