CVE-2023-53298

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io The callback context for sending/receiving APDUs to/from the selected secure element is allocated inside nfc_genl_se_io and supposed to be eventually freed in se_io_cb callback function. However, there are several error paths where the bwi_timer is not charged to call se_io_cb later, and the cb_context is leaked. The patch proposes to free the cb_context explicitly on those error paths. At the moment we can't simply check 'dev->ops->se_io()' return value as it may be negative in both cases: when the timer was charged and was not.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c494365432dcdc549986f4d9af9eb6190cbdb153

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba98db08895748c12e5ded52cd1598dce2c79e55

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2036a252381949d3b743a3de069324ae3028a57

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af452e35b9e6a87cd49e54a7a3d60d934b194651

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8978315cb4bf8878c9c8ec05dafd8f7ff539860d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5321da6d84b87a34eea441677d649c34bd854169

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/271eed1736426103335c5aac50f15b0f4d236bc0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25ff6f8a5a3b8dc48e8abda6f013e8cc4b14ffea

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-16

Updated: 2025-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024