CVE-2023-53225

spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path

Medium · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path

Returning early in a platform driver's remove callback is wrong. In this

case the dma resources are not released in the error path. this is never

retried later and so this is a permanent leak. To fix this, only skip

hardware disabling if waking the device fails.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00167 · 5.6th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:21Z
    spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path
    cvelistv5