CVE-2023-53858 (GCVE-0-2023-53858)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:30 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() in case of error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() in case of error
If clk_get_rate() fails, the clk that has just been allocated needs to be
freed.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < 755289d67eb9a74ae71bb624902e979c66859444
(git)
Affected: 5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < f47e6631a8fcc6fe05b8644aa4222a60f3b0a927 (git) Affected: 5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < 30962268fa1a7466413b3d83037688129021d470 (git) Affected: 5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < a49e5a05121c8bc471a57b4916c5393749c24de5 (git) Affected: 5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < 073dbbe5743779faf24f233cc95459b47c7198dd (git) Affected: 5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < 34f5b826dd509b76644f83094b4af7e7668a6a38 (git) Affected: 5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < 1694fc8ad734e2909a9e40d2be03cc4423e0bee6 (git) Affected: 5f5a7a5578c5885201cf9c85856f023fe8b81765 , < a9c09546e903f1068acfa38e1ee18bded7114b37 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
3.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.3 (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.322 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.291 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.40 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4.5 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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