CVE-2023-53724 (GCVE-0-2023-53724)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:50
VLAI
Title
mfd: pcf50633-adc: Fix potential memleak in pcf50633_adc_async_read()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: pcf50633-adc: Fix potential memleak in pcf50633_adc_async_read() `req` is allocated in pcf50633_adc_async_read(), but adc_enqueue_request() could fail to insert the `req` into queue. We need to check the return value and free it in the case of failure.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6848 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 66616eed76dfa6f3e442907760325a023c6da7e2 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 41cdf082ae006ea002135dfaf43b2897de3bded8 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 588edb4fb1f1e6487a0f60a5f7b9a24d2d0c9f8e (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 3ee13bdf0d25ae8752ae6185b6d13bbb0d5a8e30 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 6a8a02dcfae13ab07dc7bed2b409cec7f3d32e92 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 9cca3a4933ca365cc664d5eefb0f942374ea8b41 (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < a62a5e79202967176a9c1a04e477860779accd6c (git)
Affected: 08c3e06a5eb27d43b712adef18379f8464425e71 , < 8b450dcff23aa254844492831a8e2b508a9d522d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.29
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.29 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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