CVE-2023-53211

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:

driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false

struct acpi_pld_info *pld should be freed before the return of allocation failure, to prevent memory leak, add the ACPI_FREE() to fix it.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+4 more)

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

driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld before return false

struct acpi_pld_info *pld should be freed before the return of allocation failure, to prevent memory leak, add the ACPI_FREE() to fix it.

Fixes