CVE-2023-53505 (GCVE-0-2023-53505)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:45 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:46
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Title
clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak The tegra and tegra needs to be freed in the error handling path, otherwise it will be leaked.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 , < 801c8341f7aff07c494b53e627970b72635af5d3 (git)
Affected: 2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 , < 404e9f741acfb188212f7142d91e247630dd77cc (git)
Affected: 2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 , < fd1c117bb5d7e033bf1aa25ac97ff421f81a1199 (git)
Affected: 2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 , < 96bafece6ff380138896f009141fd7337070e680 (git)
Affected: 2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 , < e969c144d908ea9387442659f103d374c8ff682d (git)
Affected: 2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 , < 4e59e355f9fcccd9edf65d09f769bb4c163a1c36 (git)
Affected: 2db04f16b589c6c96bd07df3f1ef8558bfdb6810 , < 53a06e5924c0d43c11379a08c5a78529c3e61595 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.13 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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