CVE-2023-53424

clk: mediatek: fix of_iomap memory leak

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 5.5
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 4 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: mediatek: fix of_iomap memory leak Smatch reports: drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c:583 mtk_clk_simple_probe() warn: 'base' from of_iomap() not released on lines: 496. This problem was also found in linux-next. In mtk_clk_simple_probe(), base is not released when handling errors if clk_data is not existed, which may cause a leak. So free_base should be added here to release base.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected c58cd0e40ffac67961b945793876b973728f9b80 < 847d5dd788ce05f0aaaa36ea174f7f0b9cf86f7d ; affected c58cd0e40ffac67961b945793876b973728f9b80 < 2cae6a28d8c12c597e8656962271520434c61c48 ; affected c58cd0e40ffac67961b945793876b973728f9b80 < 47234e19b00816a8a7b278c7173f6d4e928c43c7 ; affected c58cd0e40ffac67961b945793876b973728f9b80 < 3db7285e044144fd88a356f5b641b9cd4b231a77
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.15 ; unaffected 0 < 5.15 ; unaffected 6.1.164 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.3.13 ≤ 6.3.* ; unaffected 6.4.4 ≤ 6.4.* ; unaffected 6.5 ≤ *

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD