PT-2025-37653

CVE-2023-53211

Published

2023-01-20

Updated

2025-09-16

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A memory leak exists in the driver core due to the failure to free the acpi pld info structure before returning from an allocation failure. Specifically, the ACPI FREE() function was not called to release the memory occupied by the pld structure.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Related identifiers

CVE-2023-53211

BDU:2026-02054

RHSA-2023:6583