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CVE-2023-54005 (GCVE-0-2023-54005)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:53
VLAI
Title
binder: fix memory leak in binder_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix memory leak in binder_init() In binder_init(), the destruction of binder_alloc_shrinker_init() is not performed in the wrong path, which will cause memory leaks. So this commit introduces binder_alloc_shrinker_exit() and calls it in the wrong path to fix that.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < 486dd742ba186ea333664c517d6775b06b1448ca (git)
Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < ceb0f8cc987fb3d25c06b9662e08a42f99651207 (git)
Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < b97dad01c12169991f895de3d4f61b8115d12bab (git)
Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < d7e5e2b87f5d27469075b6326b6b358e38cd9dcb (git)
Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < 03eebad96233397f951d8e9fafd82a1674a77284 (git)
Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < f11a26633eb6d3bb24a10b1bacc4e4a9b0c6389f (git)
Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < ee95051c0c1928051f86198bf5e554277a53b26b (git)
Affected: f2517eb76f1f2f7f89761f9db2b202e89931738c , < adb9743d6a08778b78d62d16b4230346d3508986 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.324 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.292 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.254 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.191 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.127 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.46 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.11 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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