CVE-2023-53792 (GCVE-0-2023-53792)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2025-12-09 00:00
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-core: fix memory leak in dhchap_ctrl_secret Free dhchap_secret in nvme_ctrl_dhchap_ctrl_secret_store() before we return when nvme_auth_generate_key() returns error.
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Linux Linux Affected: f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea , < 43d0724d756a13694f612a8a151f835ad6425b93 (git)
Affected: f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea , < 39b90fc75943406d2bd60fd1ea041aca2559cc5f (git)
Affected: f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea , < 6ec30a62789913b1bd0f0d44ea4d0d2d5608b1e8 (git)
Affected: f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea , < 99c2dcc8ffc24e210a3aa05c204d92f3ef460b05 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.13 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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