CVE-2023-54266

media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()

published December 30, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()

'read' is freed when it is known to be NULL, but not when a read error

occurs.

Revert the logic to avoid a small leak, should a m920x_read() call fail.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00232 · 13.3th percentile
Published
2025-12-30T12:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 12:15Z
    media: dvb-usb: m920x: Fix a potential memory leak in m920x_i2c_xfer()
    cvelistv5