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FKIE_CVE-2023-53096

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-02 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:44

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: interconnect: fix mem leak when freeing nodes The node link array is allocated when adding links to a node but is not deallocated when nodes are destroyed.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e0b13a1827229a02abef97b50ffaf89ba25370a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3167306455d0fbbbcf08cb25651acc527a86a95e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5904f415e1af72fa8fe6665aa4f554dc2099a95	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1722e4113281fb34e5b4fb5c5387b17cd39a537	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efae80ca13faa94457208852825731da44a788ad	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1e3a20c60196c37a402c584d0c9de306ba988ce	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.3
linux	linux_kernel	6.3

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CVE-2023-53096 (GCVE-0-2023-53096)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:38

Title

interconnect: fix mem leak when freeing nodes

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root Scorecard

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1e3a20c60196c37a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efae80ca13faa9445…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e0b13a1827229a02…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3167306455d0fbbbc…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1722e4113281fb34…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5904f415e1af72fa…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < f1e3a20c60196c37a402c584d0c9de306ba988ce (git) Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < efae80ca13faa94457208852825731da44a788ad (git) Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < 2e0b13a1827229a02abef97b50ffaf89ba25370a (git) Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < 3167306455d0fbbbcf08cb25651acc527a86a95e (git) Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < c1722e4113281fb34e5b4fb5c5387b17cd39a537 (git) Affected: 11f1ceca7031deefc1a34236ab7b94360016b71d , < a5904f415e1af72fa8fe6665aa4f554dc2099a95 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.238 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.176 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.104 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.21 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.8 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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