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FKIE_CVE-2023-54169

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-30 13:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:46

Severity

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open When kvzalloc_node or kvzalloc failed in mlx5e_ptp_open, the memory pointed by "c" or "cparams" is not freed, which can lead to a memory leak. Fix by freeing the array in the error path.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4892e1e548b5bd6524c1c89df06e4849df26fc20
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7035e3ae600c4e9cb3dc220c24dd77112ddff8b1
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a8f7337a14cdb215c76a8f4cf3f3be8b59177d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d543b649ffe58a0cb4b6948b3305069c5980a1fa

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "product": "Linux",
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            "drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/ptp.c"
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    }
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  "vulnStatus": "Deferred"
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CVE-2023-54169 (GCVE-0-2023-54169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:08 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:56

Title

net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_ptp_open

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4892e1e548b5bd652…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a8f7337a14cdb21…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7035e3ae600c4e9cb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d543b649ffe58a0cb…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < 4892e1e548b5bd6524c1c89df06e4849df26fc20 (git) Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < 83a8f7337a14cdb215c76a8f4cf3f3be8b59177d (git) Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < 7035e3ae600c4e9cb3dc220c24dd77112ddff8b1 (git) Affected: 145e5637d941daec2e8d1ff21676cbf1aa62cf4d , < d543b649ffe58a0cb4b6948b3305069c5980a1fa (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (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)

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