CVE-2023-53435

cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()

Medium · published September 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()

cas_saturn_firmware_init() allocates some memory using vmalloc(). This

memory is freed in the .remove() function but not it the error handling

path of the probe.

Add the missing vfree() to avoid a memory leak, should an error occur.

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
0.00149 · 3.7th percentile
Published
2025-09-18T16:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 16:04Z
    cassini: Fix a memory leak in the error handling path of cas_init_one()
    cvelistv5