CVE-2023-53697

low

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvdimm: Fix memleak of pmu attr_groups in unregister_nvdimm_pmu() Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function 'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function 'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85ae42c72142346645e63c33835da947dfa008b3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/500a6ff9c2a81348fe0f04e2deb758145e8ab94e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4999f2ec5fde7c45e3ecafda5b78560cc1c7bdb5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16259c80542ee8945aaa39cfc6a1809bcdc08ffe

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-22

Updated: 2025-10-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.4

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018