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FKIE_CVE-2023-52706

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-21 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:43

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: sim: fix a memory leak Fix an inverted logic bug in gpio_sim_remove_hogs() that leads to GPIO hog structures never being freed.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79eeab1d85e0fee4c0bc36f3b6ddf3920f39f74b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/854e1ecff266033d3149666d3c5b8b0e174b4210	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79eeab1d85e0fee4c0bc36f3b6ddf3920f39f74b	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/854e1ecff266033d3149666d3c5b8b0e174b4210	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.2
linux	linux_kernel	6.2
linux	linux_kernel	6.2
linux	linux_kernel	6.2
linux	linux_kernel	6.2
linux	linux_kernel	6.2
linux	linux_kernel	6.2
linux	linux_kernel	6.2

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CVE-2023-52706 (GCVE-0-2023-52706)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:22 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:32

Title

gpio: sim: fix a memory leak

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-06-05 17:18 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/854e1ecff266033d3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79eeab1d85e0fee4c…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: cb8c474e79be458f58e9df073f51ca159f3a2aa0 , < 854e1ecff266033d3149666d3c5b8b0e174b4210 (git) Affected: cb8c474e79be458f58e9df073f51ca159f3a2aa0 , < 79eeab1d85e0fee4c0bc36f3b6ddf3920f39f74b (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.17 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.13 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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