CVE-2023-53197

Summary

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

USB: uhci: 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
LinuxLinux5649d86f537887c2be88689986ec4dd493d4babe < c6af1dbc99ad37bf67c8703982df4d7f12d256c1affected
LinuxLinux5649d86f537887c2be88689986ec4dd493d4babe < e529aeb771aef1402c899b6b405610ef444d5d88affected
LinuxLinux5649d86f537887c2be88689986ec4dd493d4babe < 9cb88847b8b86f132309030022a23dca895b6f61affected
LinuxLinux5649d86f537887c2be88689986ec4dd493d4babe < 0a3f82c79c86278e7f144564b1cb6cc5c3657144affected
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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