CVE-2023-53435

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one() cas_saturn_firmware_init() allocates some memory using vmalloc(). This memory is freed in the .remove() function but not it the error handling path of the probe. Add the missing vfree() to avoid a memory leak, should an error occur.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.37-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.191-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.3.7-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.3.7-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.3.7-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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