CVE-2023-53724 (GCVE-0-2023-53724)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:50
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Title
mfd: pcf50633-adc: Fix potential memleak in pcf50633_adc_async_read()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: pcf50633-adc: Fix potential memleak in pcf50633_adc_async_read() `req` is allocated in pcf50633_adc_async_read(), but adc_enqueue_request() could fail to insert the `req` into queue. We need to check the return value and free it in the case of failure.
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Linux Linux Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 66616eed76dfa6f3e442907760325a023c6da7e2 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 41cdf082ae006ea002135dfaf43b2897de3bded8 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 588edb4fb1f1e6487a0f60a5f7b9a24d2d0c9f8e (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 3ee13bdf0d25ae8752ae6185b6d13bbb0d5a8e30 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 6a8a02dcfae13ab07dc7bed2b409cec7f3d32e92 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 9cca3a4933ca365cc664d5eefb0f942374ea8b41 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < a62a5e79202967176a9c1a04e477860779accd6c (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 8b450dcff23aa254844492831a8e2b508a9d522d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.29
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.29 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (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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