CVE-2023-53993 (GCVE-0-2023-53993)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2025-12-24 10:55
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Title
PCI/DOE: Fix memory leak with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI/DOE: Fix memory leak with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y After a pci_doe_task completes, its work_struct needs to be destroyed to avoid a memory leak with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y.
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Linux Linux Affected: 9d24322e887b6a3d3f9f9c3e76937a646102c8c1 , < 2a0e0f4773fe8032fb17e56f897bee32ce3cdc2b (git)
Affected: 9d24322e887b6a3d3f9f9c3e76937a646102c8c1 , < 95628b830952943631d3d74f73f431f501c5d6f5 (git)
Affected: 9d24322e887b6a3d3f9f9c3e76937a646102c8c1 , < abf04be0e7071f2bcd39bf97ba407e7d4439785e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.24 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.11 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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