CVE-2023-53050 (GCVE-0-2023-53050)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:37
VLAI
Title
thunderbolt: Fix memory leak in margining
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thunderbolt: Fix memory leak in margining Memory for the usb4->margining needs to be relased for the upstream port of the router as well, even though the debugfs directory gets released with the router device removal. Fix this.
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: d0f1e0c2a6990922818d6616a48d3d92bb7ddac1 , < f390095bbd131ec2dfb29792d9f6fd0f0656bfc0 (git)
Affected: d0f1e0c2a6990922818d6616a48d3d92bb7ddac1 , < 0b357b360e671688f9bf38ff94300515b68bc247 (git)
Affected: d0f1e0c2a6990922818d6616a48d3d92bb7ddac1 , < acec726473822bc6b585961f4ca2a11fa7f28341 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.22 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.9 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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