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CVE-2023-53637 (GCVE-0-2023-53637)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:19 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:49
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Title
media: i2c: ov772x: Fix memleak in ov772x_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: i2c: ov772x: Fix memleak in ov772x_probe() A memory leak was reported when testing ov772x with bpf mock device: AssertionError: unreferenced object 0xffff888109afa7a8 (size 8): comm "python3", pid 279, jiffies 4294805921 (age 20.681s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 80 22 88 15 81 88 ff ff ."...... backtrace: [<000000009990b438>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0 [<000000009e32f7d7>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180 [<00000000faf48134>] v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x11d/0x180 [videodev] [<00000000da376937>] ov772x_probe+0x1c3/0x68c [ov772x] [<000000003f0d225e>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680 [<00000000e0b6db89>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0 [<000000001b19fcee>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170 [<0000000048370519>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120 [<000000005ead07a0>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 [<0000000043f452b8>] bus_for_each_drv+0x114/0x180 [<00000000358e5596>] __device_attach+0x1e5/0x2d0 [<0000000043f83c5d>] bus_probe_device+0x126/0x140 [<00000000ee0f3046>] device_add+0x810/0x1130 [<00000000e0278184>] i2c_new_client_device+0x359/0x4f0 [<0000000070baf34f>] of_i2c_register_device+0xf1/0x110 [<00000000a9f2159d>] of_i2c_notify+0x100/0x160 unreferenced object 0xffff888119825c00 (size 256): comm "python3", pid 279, jiffies 4294805921 (age 20.681s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 b4 a5 17 81 88 ff ff 00 5e 82 19 81 88 ff ff .........^...... 10 5c 82 19 81 88 ff ff 10 5c 82 19 81 88 ff ff .\.......\...... backtrace: [<000000009990b438>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0 [<000000009e32f7d7>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180 [<0000000073d88e0b>] v4l2_ctrl_new.cold+0x19b/0x86f [videodev] [<00000000b1f576fb>] v4l2_ctrl_new_std+0x16f/0x210 [videodev] [<00000000caf7ac99>] ov772x_probe+0x1fa/0x68c [ov772x] [<000000003f0d225e>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680 [<00000000e0b6db89>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0 [<000000001b19fcee>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170 [<0000000048370519>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120 [<000000005ead07a0>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 [<0000000043f452b8>] bus_for_each_drv+0x114/0x180 [<00000000358e5596>] __device_attach+0x1e5/0x2d0 [<0000000043f83c5d>] bus_probe_device+0x126/0x140 [<00000000ee0f3046>] device_add+0x810/0x1130 [<00000000e0278184>] i2c_new_client_device+0x359/0x4f0 [<0000000070baf34f>] of_i2c_register_device+0xf1/0x110 The reason is that if priv->hdl.error is set, ov772x_probe() jumps to the error_mutex_destroy without doing v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(), and all resources allocated in v4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() are leaked.
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: 1112babde21483d86ed3fbad1320b0ddf9ab2ece , < cc3b6011d7a9f149489eb9420c6305a779162c57 (git)
Affected: 1112babde21483d86ed3fbad1320b0ddf9ab2ece , < 448ce1cd50387b1345ec14eb191ef05f7afc2a26 (git)
Affected: 1112babde21483d86ed3fbad1320b0ddf9ab2ece , < dfaafeb8e9537969e8dba75491f732478c7fa9d6 (git)
Affected: 1112babde21483d86ed3fbad1320b0ddf9ab2ece , < 1da495101ef7507eb4f4b1dbec2874d740eff251 (git)
Affected: 1112babde21483d86ed3fbad1320b0ddf9ab2ece , < ac93f8ac66e60227bed42d5a023f0e6c15b52c0a (git)
Affected: 1112babde21483d86ed3fbad1320b0ddf9ab2ece , < c86d760c1c6855a6131e78d0ddacc48c79324ac3 (git)
Affected: 1112babde21483d86ed3fbad1320b0ddf9ab2ece , < 7485edb2b6ca5960205c0a49bedfd09bba30e521 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (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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    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "None",
      "current_release_date": "2026-06-30T10:21:16+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2023-53637",
      "id": "CVE-2023-53637",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "274",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: media: i2c: ov772x: Fix memleak in ov772x_probe()",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2023/cve-2023-53637.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-08-29T02:06:02Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2023-53637",
      "id": "CVE-2023-53637",
      "initial_release_date": "2025-10-08T23:30:57Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "423",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "326",
      "product_status:recommended": "196",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2023-53637",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2023-53637.json",
      "version": "22"
    }
  }
}



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