PT-2025-37893 · Linux+4 · Linux Kernel+4

Published 2023-07-13 · Updated 2025-11-19 · CVE-2023-53288

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 was resolved in the drm/client module of the Linux kernel. Specifically, the issue occurred in the drm client modeset probe function when a new mode was set to modeset->mode, failing to free the previous mode. This resulted in a memory leak as reported by kmemleak.

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

Exploit

Memory Leak

Improper Resource Release

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-401

CWE-404

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025_16880

BDU:2026-04612

CESA-2023_7077

CVE-2023-53288

RHSA-2023:7077

RHSA-2023_7077

RHSA-2024:2394

RHSA-2024_2394

SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03614-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20851-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20861-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20870-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20898-1

SUSE-SU-2025:3716-1

SUSE-SU-2025:3751-1

SUSE-SU-2025:3761-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2053

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53288.json · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:20898-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53288 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d580017bdb9b3e930b6009e467e5e1589f8ca8a · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1369d0c586ad44f2d18fe2f4cbc5bcb24132fa71 · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/917bef37cfaca07781c6fbaf6cd9404d27e64e6f · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:20861-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53288 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f2a12f64347f535c6ef55fa7eb36a2874d69b59 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8108a494639e56aea77e7196a1d6ea89792b9d4a · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:03600-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53288 · Security Note