CVE-2023-53181 (GCVE-0-2023-53181)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:04 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure
Currently dma_resv_get_fences() will leak the previously
allocated array if the fence iteration got restarted and
the krealloc_array() fails.
Free the old array by hand, and make sure we still clear
the returned *fences so the caller won't end up accessing
freed memory. Some (but not all) of the callers of
dma_resv_get_fences() seem to still trawl through the
array even when dma_resv_get_fences() failed. And let's
zero out *num_fences as well for good measure.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
d3c80698c9f58a0683badf78793eebaa0c71afbd , < 19e7b9f1f7e1cb92a4cc53b4c064f7fb4b1f1983
(git)
Affected: d3c80698c9f58a0683badf78793eebaa0c71afbd , < 819656cc03dec7f7f7800274dfbc8eb49f888e9f (git) Affected: d3c80698c9f58a0683badf78793eebaa0c71afbd , < 05abb3be91d8788328231ee02973ab3d47f5e3d2 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.42 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.7 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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