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GHSA-XRJW-43G7-84Q8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-22 15:31 – Updated: 2025-10-22 15:31

Details

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

nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu()

Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function 'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function 'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.

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CVE-2023-53697 (GCVE-0-2023-53697)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:50

Title

nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu() Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function 'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function 'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/500a6ff9c2a81348f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4999f2ec5fde7c45e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16259c80542ee8945…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85ae42c7214234664…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 500a6ff9c2a81348fe0f04e2deb758145e8ab94e (git) Affected: 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 4999f2ec5fde7c45e3ecafda5b78560cc1c7bdb5 (git) Affected: 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 16259c80542ee8945aaa39cfc6a1809bcdc08ffe (git) Affected: 0fab1ba6ad6ba1f76380f92ead95c6e861ef8116 , < 85ae42c72142346645e63c33835da947dfa008b3 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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