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GHSA-CR8F-M6RJ-F9QJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-02 18:31 – Updated: 2025-11-12 21:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

octeontx2-vf: Add missing free for alloc_percpu

Add the free_percpu for the allocated "vf->hw.lmt_info" in order to avoid memory leak, same as the "pf->hw.lmt_info" in drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-53069 (GCVE-0-2023-53069)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:37

Title

octeontx2-vf: Add missing free for alloc_percpu

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-vf: Add missing free for alloc_percpu Add the free_percpu for the allocated "vf->hw.lmt_info" in order to avoid memory leak, same as the "pf->hw.lmt_info" in `drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c`.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90874b76e5f82eaa3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/840631bcf21f58c0a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/813b590840771890c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f038f3917baf04835…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5c0512072f6517326d9fba083c4467f173ddd984 , < 90874b76e5f82eaa3309714d72ff2cd8bb8d1b02 (git) Affected: 5c0512072f6517326d9fba083c4467f173ddd984 , < 840631bcf21f58c0a3f01378a54d79e9ce86b226 (git) Affected: 5c0512072f6517326d9fba083c4467f173ddd984 , < 813b590840771890c738ce6dbfd0c5938a1bafb9 (git) Affected: 5c0512072f6517326d9fba083c4467f173ddd984 , < f038f3917baf04835ba2b7bcf2a04ac93fbf8a9c (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.105 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.22 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.9 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2023-53069 (GCVE-0-2023-53069)

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