CVE-2023-53435

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2025-09-18

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-401

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c0ed097a874156957b515d0ba7e356142eab87
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/172146c26f0c1b86ab4e9ebffc7e06f04229fa17
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/234e744d86bd95b381d24546df2dba72804e0219
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/412cd77a2c24b191c65ea53025222418db09817c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60d8e8b88087d68e10c8991a0f6733fa2f963ff0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8b1a667744741fa7807b09a12797a27f14f3fac
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc61f7582cc92d547d02e141cd66f5d1f4ed8012
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20105d967ab5b53ff50a0e5991fe37324d2ba20