CVE-2023-53801 (GCVE-0-2023-53801)

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: iommu/sprd: Release dma buffer to avoid memory leak When attaching to a domain, the driver would alloc a DMA buffer which is used to store address mapping table, and it need to be released when the IOMMU domain is freed.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 92c089a931fd3939cd32318cf4f54e69e8f51a19 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 8745f3592ee4a7b49ede16ddd3f12a41ecaa23c9 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d0a917fd5e3b3ed9d9306b4260ba684b982da9f3 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 9afea57384d4ae7b2034593eac7fa76c7122762a (git)
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    Linux Linux Unaffected: 5.15.113 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.81 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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