CVE-2023-53435

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20105d967ab5b53ff50a0e5991fe37324d2ba20

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc61f7582cc92d547d02e141cd66f5d1f4ed8012

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8b1a667744741fa7807b09a12797a27f14f3fac

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60d8e8b88087d68e10c8991a0f6733fa2f963ff0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/412cd77a2c24b191c65ea53025222418db09817c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/234e744d86bd95b381d24546df2dba72804e0219

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/172146c26f0c1b86ab4e9ebffc7e06f04229fa17

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c0ed097a874156957b515d0ba7e356142eab87

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-18

Updated: 2025-09-19

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