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CVE-2023-53546 (GCVE-0-2023-53546)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:47
VLAI
Title
net/mlx5: DR, fix memory leak in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: DR, fix memory leak in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx when mlx5_cmd_exec failed in mlx5dr_cmd_create_reformat_ctx, the memory pointed by 'in' is not released, which will cause memory leak. Move memory release after mlx5_cmd_exec.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1d9186476e12c85dc81a0f01f5c614a9683af7f2 , < 800d8c96bf997da5eb76ccf8d88795c4231c83fb (git)
Affected: 1d9186476e12c85dc81a0f01f5c614a9683af7f2 , < 165159854757dbae0dfd1812b27051da35aa6223 (git)
Affected: 1d9186476e12c85dc81a0f01f5c614a9683af7f2 , < 00cecb0a8f9e7a21754d5ad85813ab6b47b3308f (git)
Affected: 1d9186476e12c85dc81a0f01f5c614a9683af7f2 , < 3169c3854397f3070a63b1b772db16dcb8cba7b4 (git)
Affected: 1d9186476e12c85dc81a0f01f5c614a9683af7f2 , < 622d71d99124e69f7bf2e2b7a89f5f444a24d235 (git)
Affected: 1d9186476e12c85dc81a0f01f5c614a9683af7f2 , < 5dd77585dd9d0e03dd1bceb95f0269a7eaf6b936 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.253 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.190 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.126 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.45 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.10 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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