CVE-2023-54078 (GCVE-0-2023-54078)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
media: max9286: Free control handler
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: max9286: Free control handler
The control handler is leaked in some probe-time error paths, as well as
in the remove path. Fix it.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
66d8c9d2422da21ed41f75c03ba0685987b65fe0 , < 9a3a907cf69f804eb41ece5c079720d1a6a15aa1
(git)
Affected: 66d8c9d2422da21ed41f75c03ba0685987b65fe0 , < 1ad4b8c4552b4096dfc86531462dc1899f96af94 (git) Affected: 66d8c9d2422da21ed41f75c03ba0685987b65fe0 , < 1e9fc6c473210138eff3425a6136f0a9bf4eb0ae (git) Affected: 66d8c9d2422da21ed41f75c03ba0685987b65fe0 , < 0f25f99dacc72bce7d4128f7a254b23f1a343cc7 (git) Affected: 66d8c9d2422da21ed41f75c03ba0685987b65fe0 , < 19f36204dbe28bf4ec0149e87e9996a56af4e654 (git) Affected: 66d8c9d2422da21ed41f75c03ba0685987b65fe0 , < bfce6a12e5ba1edde95126aa06778027f16115d4 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.180 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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