CVE-2023-53435 (GCVE-0-2023-53435)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2025-09-18 16:04
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one() cas_saturn_firmware_init() allocates some memory using vmalloc(). This memory is freed in the .remove() function but not it the error handling path of the probe. Add the missing vfree() to avoid a memory leak, should an error occur.
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Linux Linux Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < 11c0ed097a874156957b515d0ba7e356142eab87 (git)
Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < 60d8e8b88087d68e10c8991a0f6733fa2f963ff0 (git)
Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < e20105d967ab5b53ff50a0e5991fe37324d2ba20 (git)
Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < dc61f7582cc92d547d02e141cd66f5d1f4ed8012 (git)
Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < 234e744d86bd95b381d24546df2dba72804e0219 (git)
Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < 172146c26f0c1b86ab4e9ebffc7e06f04229fa17 (git)
Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < b8b1a667744741fa7807b09a12797a27f14f3fac (git)
Affected: fcaa40669cd798ca2ac0d15441e8a1d1145f2b16 , < 412cd77a2c24b191c65ea53025222418db09817c (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.28
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.28 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.316 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.284 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.244 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.181 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.113 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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