PT-2025-37653 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1

Published 2023-01-20 · Updated 2025-09-16 · CVE-2023-53211

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV: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.

Exploit

Memory Leak

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-401

Related Identifiers

BDU:2026-02054

CVE-2023-53211

RHSA-2023:6583

RHSA-2023:7077

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Linux Kernel

References · 21

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53211.json · Exploit
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a9de90951bbeaed775e4b8d1b16b4d359e82bf5 · Patch
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2026-02054 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-53211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d150f967e8410e1e6712484543eec709356a65d · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53211 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fe72b8f59f63ca776bb8a4fcd2f406057a9fc90 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BELL-CVE-2023-53211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53211 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53211 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1967602086582923275 · Twitter Post