CVE-2023-53173

Summary

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

tty: pcn_uart: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic at once.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux4dec5f1af694526db760dfbb47211236e556e27c < cf042964c2fa72950bbbf25b2cdd732b873e89dbaffected
LinuxLinux4dec5f1af694526db760dfbb47211236e556e27c < 4459d1e7bd0421b3b6fcd745773d8823f71615efaffected
LinuxLinux4dec5f1af694526db760dfbb47211236e556e27c < 139769c4bd8273b5e3f85ea474aa37018fe7e436affected
LinuxLinux4dec5f1af694526db760dfbb47211236e556e27c < 04a189c720aa2b6091442113ce9b9bc93552dff8affected
LinuxLinux5.13affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.13unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.100 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.18 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.2.5 <= 6.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.3 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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