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FKIE_CVE-2023-53518

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 12:15 - Updated: 2026-01-23 20:07

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release() srcu_init_notifier_head() allocates resources that need to be released with a srcu_cleanup_notifier_head() call. Reported by kmemleak.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/111bafa210ae546bee7644be730c42df9c35b66e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1640e9c72173911ad0fddb05012c01eafe082c4e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29811f4b8255d4238cf326f3bb7129784766beab	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3354c401c68d70567d1ef25d12f4e22a7813a3c6	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5693d077595de721f9ddbf9d37f40e5409707dfe	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e6e0dc2d578c0a9e31cb4edd719f0a3ed98f6d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7462483446cb9986568ad7adae746ce5f18d2968	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8918025feb2f5f7c73f2495c158f22997e25cb02	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab192e5e5d3b48415909a8408acfd007a607bcc0	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2023-53518 (GCVE-0-2023-53518)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:46 – Updated: 2025-10-01 11:46

Title

PM / devfreq: Fix leak in devfreq_dev_release()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7462483446cb99865…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e6e0dc2d578c0a9…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29811f4b8255d4238…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab192e5e5d3b48415…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/111bafa210ae546be…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8918025feb2f5f7c7…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1640e9c72173911ad…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3354c401c68d70567…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5693d077595de721f…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 7462483446cb9986568ad7adae746ce5f18d2968 (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 64e6e0dc2d578c0a9e31cb4edd719f0a3ed98f6d (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 29811f4b8255d4238cf326f3bb7129784766beab (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < ab192e5e5d3b48415909a8408acfd007a607bcc0 (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 111bafa210ae546bee7644be730c42df9c35b66e (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 8918025feb2f5f7c73f2495c158f22997e25cb02 (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 1640e9c72173911ad0fddb05012c01eafe082c4e (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 3354c401c68d70567d1ef25d12f4e22a7813a3c6 (git)
Affected: 0fe3a66410a3ba96679be903f1e287d7a0a264a9 , < 5693d077595de721f9ddbf9d37f40e5409707dfe (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.326 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.295 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2023-53518

CVE-2023-53518 (GCVE-0-2023-53518)

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