PT-2025-38443 · Linux+4 · Linux Kernel+4
Published
2025-09-18
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Updated
2026-05-26
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CVE-2023-53424
CVSS v3.1
5.5
Medium
| 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
The Linux kernel contains a memory leak in the
mtk clk simple probe() function within the MediaTek clock driver (drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c). Specifically, the memory allocated by of iomap() for the base variable is not released when an error occurs during the probe function, leading to a memory leak if clk data does not exist. This issue was identified by Smatch and also present in linux-next.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
Memory Leak
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Astra Linux
Debian
Linux Kernel
Mediatek Clock Driver
Suse