CVE-2026-53121

amd-pstate: Fix memory leak in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init()

published June 24, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

amd-pstate: Fix memory leak in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init()

On failure to set the epp, the function amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init()

returns with an error code without freeing the cpudata object that was

allocated at the beginning of the function.

Ensure that the cpudata object is freed before returning from the

function.

This memory leak was discovered by Claude Opus 4.6 with the aid of

Chris Mason's AI review-prompts

(https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts/tree/main/kernel).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2026-06-24T16:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUN 16:30Z
    amd-pstate: Fix memory leak in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init()
    cvelistv5