CVE-2023-53191

Updated on 15 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

irqchip/alpine-msi: Fix refcount leak in alpine_msix_init_domains

of_irq_find_parent() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, We should use of_node_put() on it when not needed anymore. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+8 more)

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

irqchip/alpine-msi: Fix refcount leak in alpine_msix_init_domains

of_irq_find_parent() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, We should use of_node_put() on it when not needed anymore. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Fixes