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CVE-2023-54169 (GCVE-0-2023-54169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:08 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:56
VLAI
Title
net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open When kvzalloc_node or kvzalloc failed in mlx5e_ptp_open, the memory pointed by "c" or "cparams" is not freed, which can lead to a memory leak. Fix by freeing the array in the error path.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < 4892e1e548b5bd6524c1c89df06e4849df26fc20 (git)
Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < 83a8f7337a14cdb215c76a8f4cf3f3be8b59177d (git)
Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < 7035e3ae600c4e9cb3dc220c24dd77112ddff8b1 (git)
Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < d543b649ffe58a0cb4b6948b3305069c5980a1fa (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.40 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.5 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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