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GHSA-M2R3-WMC2-RQ6Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-16 15:32 – Updated: 2025-12-02 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls()

hi846_init_controls doesn't clean the allocated ctrl_hdlr in case there is a failure, which causes memleak. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free to free the resource properly.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-53300 (GCVE-0-2023-53300)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 08:11 – Updated: 2025-09-16 08:11

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hi846: Fix memleak in hi846_init_controls() hi846_init_controls doesn't clean the allocated ctrl_hdlr in case there is a failure, which causes memleak. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free to free the resource properly.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd22e8c8c38fb40f1…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12a80b1490e398f5a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07f0f15e5db60c5b0…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2649c1a20e8e399ee…

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Version

Linux

Affected: e8c0882685f9152f0d729664a12bcbe749cb7736 , < fd22e8c8c38fb40f130d3a60e52c59996a5bbae9 (git)
Affected: e8c0882685f9152f0d729664a12bcbe749cb7736 , < 12a80b1490e398f5ad7157508cf32b73511de5fc (git)
Affected: e8c0882685f9152f0d729664a12bcbe749cb7736 , < 07f0f15e5db60c5b0722049d3251ef4a46dc3b76 (git)
Affected: e8c0882685f9152f0d729664a12bcbe749cb7736 , < 2649c1a20e8e399ee955d0e22192f9992662c3d2 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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