CVE-2023-54266 (GCVE-0-2023-54266)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:15 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:15
VLAI?
Title
media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()
'read' is freed when it is known to be NULL, but not when a read error
occurs.
Revert the logic to avoid a small leak, should a m920x_read() call fail.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
82ce3084892c0c0e006ec61f6144f2cc4e5ece88 , < 809623fedc31f4e74039d93bb75a8993635d7534
(git)
Affected: 7dca4428d7eb33c89979e620228fe557593fde66 , < c0178e938f110cdf6937f26975c0c951dbb1d9db (git) Affected: fe791612afabaeee9b911bd7b955985bcf5ff314 , < 75d6ef197c488cd852493b4a419274e3489da79d (git) Affected: 830e5d1b4344c2575020ee4bdf63fb48e2b56ce3 , < d13a84874a2e0236c9325b3adc8e126d0888ad6b (git) Affected: 0c044e39d52abfbb4cb43dbc5a09c1dc1ed24648 , < 7ca7cd02114ac8caa6b0a64734b9af6be1559353 (git) Affected: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27 , < 2b6e20ef0585a467c24c7e4fde28518e5b33225a (git) Affected: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27 , < 4feed3dfca722c6d74865a37cab853c58e6aa190 (git) Affected: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27 , < 2cc9f11aeae2887a4db25c27323fc445f4b49e86 (git) Affected: a2ab06d7c4d6bfd0b545a768247a70463e977e27 , < ea9ef6c2e001c5dc94bee35ebd1c8a98621cf7b8 (git) Affected: 08cb4f0da9926277101d18d817048e1328ac2563 (git) Affected: 273cac7a89712ba6b898214af150b71dc33abe0c (git) Affected: b7e221dc8f23727e00a7fb6709b3318547a7c4d8 (git) |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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