CVE-2023-53196

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:

usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak

Function dwc3_qcom_probe() allocates memory for resource structure which is pointed by parent_res pointer. This memory is not freed. This leads to memory leak. Use stack memory to prevent memory leak.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0 (+3 more)

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

usb: dwc3: qcom: Fix potential memory leak

Function dwc3_qcom_probe() allocates memory for resource structure which is pointed by parent_res pointer. This memory is not freed. This leads to memory leak. Use stack memory to prevent memory leak.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes