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GHSA-R3PW-3J86-Q7W6

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

Details

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

usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak

Function dwc3_qcom_probe() allocates memory for resource structure which is pointed by parent_res pointer. This memory is not freed. This leads to memory leak. Use stack memory to prevent memory leak.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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-2023-53196 (GCVE-0-2023-53196)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:40

Title

usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak Function dwc3_qcom_probe() allocates memory for resource structure which is pointed by parent_res pointer. This memory is not freed. This leads to memory leak. Use stack memory to prevent memory leak. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/648a163cff21ea355…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74f8606ddfa450d22…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b626cd5e4a87a2816…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3b322b84ab5dda7e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/134a7d4642f11daed…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/097fb3ee710d4de83…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 648a163cff21ea355c8765e882ba8bf66a870a3e (git) Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 74f8606ddfa450d2255b4e61472a7632def1e8c4 (git) Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < b626cd5e4a87a281629e0c2b07519990077c0fbe (git) Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < c3b322b84ab5dda7eaca9ded763628b7467734f4 (git) Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 134a7d4642f11daed6bbc378f930a54dd0322291 (git) Affected: 2bc02355f8ba2c1f108ec8b16a673b467a17228c , < 097fb3ee710d4de83b8d4f5589e8ee13e0f0541e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.3 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.3 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-R3PW-3J86-Q7W6

CVE-2023-53196 (GCVE-0-2023-53196)

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